It's important for them to know their heritage, especially because they don't go to temple. I live on borrowed time. I could have been dead years ago. I've been given a kind of reprieve. My wife says it's made me more generous, more optimistic.
Discrimination is so senseless.
People need to understand what happens when you discriminate. As German Jews, Ronald's family experienced prejudice even before Hitler's rise to power. His grandfather, Paul Rosenthal, was told that he could never be a judge in Berlin because he was a Jew. To protect his seven children from this kind of discrimination, he had them all baptized. Though Ronald's father married a Jew, he didn't consider himself Jewish and even celebrated Christmas.