Tag: Luthers

What Martin Luther King did for us

My father had left my two sisters, mother and myself on our own. It was 1980 and Ronald Reagan would soon take office as the President of The United States. We had just come back to The U.S. from Israel, where we had lived on a Kibbutz (Commune) for nearly 3 years. After a brief stay with my grandpa...

A Poem for Martin Luther King’s Birthday About the Need to Embrace Even a Past of Slavery and Torture

Millennia ago, the Jews were slaves, And they never forgot it, nor should we. Remembrance of things past is how one saves The lineage of one’s identity. It was as slaves in Egypt that the Jews, Never more than tribes, became a nation, Like the separate, captive, black tribes whose Uniqu...