Wisdom Project | For Larry Schlesinger, 103, Education Is Paramount
Maybe you can’t control events, but at least you’ll have some vision about what’s going on.
Maybe you can’t control events, but at least you’ll have some vision about what’s going on.
I believe being a mensch and always doing for others what you wish for your loved ones and yourself on a daily basis is most important.
Philip Drill, the eclectically gifted construction company CEO, sculptor and family patriarch, stresses the importance of living an honest life.
Joseph Werk shares his story of escaping Poland during WWII and his involvement with the IDF’s volunteer service Sar-El.
A fortune teller predicted Morris Waitz would die in World War II. Now 100, he says he “beat that by a little bit.”
Lusia Milch, the spokeswoman for “Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated” discusses her tough survival of the Holocaust and her message for Jews to never give up their fight to eliminate antisemitism.
My aunt couldn’t stop hugging me. I didn’t remember ever having been hugged in my life. I remember thinking, “This is kind of nice.”
Confidence also comes from the people who trust you; in my case, my parents, friends, bosses, students—they had confidence in me.
My parents never spoke “Jewish” at home—they wanted their kids to be American. But the year the survivors lived with us, I learned Yiddish in teaching them English.
“There was no food, no heat. My mother scavenged for wood from bombed and abandoned houses to get heat. Eventually, the Iron Curtain closed the country. My parents felt that we had no future there. We were considered too bourgeois.”