“And who by fire//who by water//who in the sunshine//who in the nighttime…” These Leonard Cohen lyrics are drawn in part from a Hebrew prayer called the U’netaneh Tokef, which is a central part of the liturgy of the Jewish High Holidays — Rosh Hashanah (the New Year) and Yom Kippur…

A personal perspective on Apollo 11, and restoring the American Dream — My grandfather Abe Gussowski was born in a shtetl near what is now the Poland-Lithuania border, a couple of years after the Wright brothers flew their first powered aircraft. He survived more than a decade after the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Struggling from immigrant child, to the Merchant…