Renewal of Commitments By Alan Sidransky Thank you Rabbi for affording me the opportunity to bring my story to our community and to share with you how my rediscovery of my most important principals lead me to a renewal of my commitments that I reaffirm now not only every year on Rosh Hashanah but every day. As a teenager I was, as I am sure were many of you, not only idealistic but also infused with the power of the positive. Three principals dominated my life; my Jewish identify, my desire to be a writer and my commitment as a member of a family deeply affected by the Shoah to tolerance and liberalism. Such was the idealism of my youth. Then life happened. I drifted from these principals and the path they might have led me down. It all started innocently enough. In late 1973 some months before my graduation from high school, my parents asked me a question. do you want “What to study in college, and what do you want to do in life?” want to study English,” I said, I want to be a writer. I want to write novels “I “and about the Jewish condition and who we are.”
Renewal of Commitments By Alan Sidransky Thank you Rabbi for affording me the opportunity to bring my story to our community and to share with you how my rediscovery of my most important principals lead me to a renewal of my commitments that I reaffirm now not only every year on Rosh Hashanah but every day. As a teenager I was, as I am sure were many of you, not only idealistic but also infused with the power of the positive. Three principals dominated my life; my Jewish identify, my desire to be a writer and my commitment as a member of a family deeply affected by the Shoah to tolerance and liberalism. Such was the idealism of my youth. Then life happened. I drifted from these principals and the path they might have led me down. It all started innocently enough. In late 1973 some months before my graduation from high school, my parents asked me a question. “What do you want to study in college, and what do you want to do in life?” “I want to study English,” I said, “and I want to be a writer. I want to write novels about the Jewish condition and who we are.”
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