March 20, 2013
I live in an old house out in the country, with a somewhat antiquated heating system that I supplement with a kerosene space heater. (I think what we call kerosene here in the U.S. is known in the other parts of the world as paraffin.) I like this arrangement, as power outages are fairly common [...]
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March 19, 2013
Several years ago, I worked for a Jewish attorney (I’ll call him “Joel”) who, along with his parents and sister, was a Holocaust survivor who came to the U.S. from Germany when he was a small child. His extended family was virtually wiped out by the Nazis. I believe his wife’s immediate family were also [...]
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