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Freeing

“When Michelangelo was a little boy, one of his friends gave him a small Greek sculpture of a human form, half chiseled from marble.  For the rest of his life, Michelangelo kept that little statue by his bed.  It was the last thins he saw before he went to sleep, the first thing he saw when he awoke.  For him it became a symbol of man’s anguished effort to be liberated from the prison of his own ignorance.  Michelangelo devoted his whole life to freeing figures from stone. Sometimes it would take him months, even years.  Always he began with a vision of the man or woman locked up in the stone.  He said, “It is my job, my task, to set that man, that woman, free.”  Such was the inspiration that great man – and, indeed such was the inspiration of the great movement, of which he was an exemplar – the Renaissance, as we call it today.”  - George Ross, “Let Us Live Before We Die” We have a dual responsib...

To Breathe Free

Brezhnev and Kosygin met to discuss te Jewish question in the Soviet Union. “Kosygin, how many Jews do have here?" “About 2 ½ million, I think.” “And if we opened the borders to let out the troublemakers among them, how many do you think would leave?” “Probably no less than 5 million.” Rabinovich and Harris Everyone has a dream to be free.

I am Not Like You

In the early years after the revolution, the residents of Odessa had pitifully to eat. “ I love ice cream,” signhd, Commissar Kogan.   “When communism comes, we will be able to eat as much ice cream as we want.” ”But I don’t like ice cream,” responded Blumenfeld. ”That’s alright we’ll force you to eat it,” Kogan applied.   – Harris Rabinovich