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Writer: Heddy Abramowitz

February 12, 2013
12:18 am

Is ‘The Sexuality Spectrum’ good for the Jews?

An exhibit in New York explores, challenges and expands the boundaries of inclusiveness.

By Heddy Abramowitz

January 22, 2013
9:11 pm

A polling place with a view…of the City of David

Exercising freedom from Maryland to Jerusalem

By Heddy Abramowitz

September 17, 2012
12:59 am

The author's father, Private Alexander Breuer (left), holding a Nazi flag he captured with his comrades in a small German town (photo credit: courtesy Heddy Abramowitz)

Rosh Hashanah in purgatory

My father, Alexander Breuer, fled the Nazis in 1938, only to return several years later with the US Army. He was among the first Americans to enter Buchenwald and witness, firsthand, the decimation of European Jewry. And on the scorched earth of occupied Germany, in 1945, he celebrated the High Holidays

By Heddy Abramowitz