Under the canopy of the enormous olive tree that shades his home, Daniel Gerwin’s 11-year-old son ascends the tree’s gnarled trunk like an expert climber while his brother, 7, reads a book a few feet ...
The olive tree is such a fitting symbol for the Jewish people and our uncanny ability to survive, to come back, to bear fruit again, even after seasons of scarcity. An early fall morning. I am walking ...