by Hanna Miley | May 6, 2022 | Blog
Today’s news, hate filled words,, lies and contempt, images of cruel, violent acts, wound my heart, wound each of our hearts. They evoke yearning… longing for justice, truth, goodness. Faint echoes of Johnny Cash’s song When the Man Comes Around seep into my mind. He...
by Hanna Miley | Apr 28, 2022 | Blog
“Abraham and the Three Angels” by Marc Chagall | 1966 Three Jews, connected by heritage, separated by history, linked by their responses to a radical call…to trust, to rely on their Lord. Abraham left his family, his culture not knowing his destination and look what...
by Hanna Miley | Apr 14, 2022 | Blog
The Place of Departure. Looking at the train track, Köln-Deutz railway station, April 11, 2010. Have you ever felt surrounded by inner and outer darkness and suddenly, you glimpse a light? It is both Passover and Holy Week as I write, and I’m remembering the past, the...
by Hanna Miley | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog
Deracinate /dēˈrasəˌnāt/ verb Definition: Uproot someone from their natural geographical, social, or cultural environment. A word in popular usage 200 years ago. George and I spent yesterday morning at the Desert Botanical Garden here in Phoenix. It is the season of...
by Hanna Miley | Mar 15, 2022 | Blog
“The first celebration of Purim” Purim 2022 March 16 and 17 Purim, the Jewish feast celebrates deliverance from certain death 2,500 years ago, in Persia, present day Iran. Haman, villainous enemy of the Jewish people, plots their destruction and is thwarted by...
by Hanna Miley | Feb 8, 2022 | Blog
1938 The year is 1938 and we had just been expelled from the local Protestant schools in Gemünd and Schleiden. The Jewish community scrambled to create a one room school in Kall installing Moses Fernbach as teacher. I remembered a photograph of our new school in...
