
Bar Mitzvahs in Concentration Camps to Bar Mitzvahs with Goats...with survivor Sid Taussig, along with Max Ringold and Lisa Litman, and special guest, goat volunteer and Bar Mitzvah, Josh Ziegler
07/09/20 • 35 min
#005. Can you imagine making your Bar Mitzvah in a concentration camp? The Last Boy, Sid Taussig, did in a secret prayer room in Terezin. Special guest, 12 year old Max Ringold compares notes with Sid, as Max prepares for his Bar Mitzvah. His teacher Lisa Litman joins us for a fascinating and fun conversation. Also joining us is special guest, goat volunteer Josh Ziegler, who just made his Bar Mitzvah... on Zoom! He shares with us a silver lining of virtual services...goats at your service!
#005. Can you imagine making your Bar Mitzvah in a concentration camp? The Last Boy, Sid Taussig, did in a secret prayer room in Terezin. Special guest, 12 year old Max Ringold compares notes with Sid, as Max prepares for his Bar Mitzvah. His teacher Lisa Litman joins us for a fascinating and fun conversation. Also joining us is special guest, goat volunteer Josh Ziegler, who just made his Bar Mitzvah... on Zoom! He shares with us a silver lining of virtual services...goats at your service!
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The Girl with the Beautiful Red Hair… with Terezin survivor Michael Gruenbaum
#004. Children of the Holocaust lost their innocence long before arriving at a concentration camp. It was a journey of sometimes small, sometimes big, terrible moments. For guest Michael Gruenbaum, the journey began at age 8, when he watched a Jewish couple leap to their death from their apartment balcony as the Nazis marched into Prague on March 15th, 1939. With many stops along the way, Michael completed that journey in May of 1945 when a train arrived in Terezin from Holocaust. The train door opened, and "the girl with the beautiful red hair" called out to him: "Meesha! Meesha! It's me, Inke!" He would never be the same, and either will you when you hear Michael recount this and other heart wrenching - yet hopeful - experiences. He reads excerpts from his compelling book Somewhere There is Still A Sun. This episode will move you, inspire you, and transform you. This episode features the Pennsylvania Girlchoir and Keystone State Boychoir singing Stephen Schwartz' 1999 Academy Award winning song, "When You Believe," from the soundtrack of the Prince of Egypt. It's powerful lyric, "though hope is frail it's hard to kill," is fitting as we discover that in the place of the loss of innocence, Michael reached for hope. Visit fishermanpodcasts.com to get exclusive, monthly access to powerful videos and more.
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#007. The previous episode was Part I of this important conversation about Cancel Culture and anti-Semitism - in the past and in the present. In this episode, Part II, Steve spends time with survivor Michael Gruenbaum, who has some incredible insights about the DeSean Jackson post and Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg's non-Cancel Culture approach to the controversy. Warning: as a former fellow "Eagle," Michael doesn't let Mr. Jackson off so easy. As in Part I, larger questions around forgiving vs. hating are explored.
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