By Dr. Gil Graff  

For millennia, Judaism was a matter of kinship and shared religious traditions. Jews imagined a shared past and envisioned a shared destiny. Jews understood themselves to stand in covenantal relationship with God and with one another.

By Jillian Weyman

As an intern at the LA Museum of the Holocaust last summer, when Natalie Gold arrived in the museum foyer I expected a standard survivor visit. I would greet them at the door, offer them some coffee, direct them to the room where they would be speaking, and in the end hear an incredible story, one more inspiring than the next. But when her father Leon Weinstein, 102 years old, was wheeled into the room where she would be speaking, I knew this story would be different.