Congratulations to Ed Barocas, son of Ellen and former Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood President Irving Barocas, on the publication of his inspiring memoir, Chasing Justice and Butterflies: A Memoir of Overcoming and Becoming (Archway Publishing). The book is the portrait of a person who refused to let physical limitations define the boundaries of his life. Born with FSHD muscular dystrophy and using a wheelchair by his early 30s, Ed tells the intertwined story of disability, la

The Skopje Holocaust Museum features a display of Macedonian Jews killed in the Holocaust. In this regard it resembles other such ones like the DC Holocaust Memorial or Yad Vashem. It’s the rest of the exhibits that distinguish it in depth. My favorite Holocaust museum in the world is located in Skopje, North Macedonia. This may seem an odd place for such an institution. Few people know of the rich Jewish history of the country, nor that 98% of the Jews in Macedonia were murd