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A son of Holocaust survivors and the granddaughter of a Nazi confront their separate inheritances

April 21, 2026April 21, 2026Jesse Orine

Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer met from opposite sides of the 20th-century moral universe: Scheidt is the only child of German Jewish refugees, raised in New York in a family haunted by what came “before”; she is the granddaughter of a committed Nazi soldier, raised in Austria amid an atmosphere of denial, silence and only […]

Where was God in the Holocaust? A NY poet and activist asks the question in a book of ‘psalms’

January 21, 2025January 22, 2025Jesse Orine

Of the 150 psalms in the book known in Hebrew as “Tehillim,” the 23rd may be the best known: “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” The late rabbi Adin Steinsaltz explained that the verse compares the speaker to a lamb, and that God the shepherd “will lead him on a secure path […]