Aaron Rozovsky News Today

The last time my dad went to his hometown of Martinsville, Virginia, was for his mother’s burial at the Jewish cemetery there two years ago. It had been nearly five decades since he’d moved away from the little industrial town on the Carolina border—part of a mass migration of the South’s small-town Jews to the region’s urban centers—and at least fifteen years since he’d last returned. The main street where his parents had run their department store for thirty years was full of e...

By LISA TRIGG | The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind. | Published: April 10, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — The twinkle in the eyes of Walter Sommers shone brightly Friday as the 100-year-old U.S. Army veteran sat outside Westminster Village with family and friends. Sommers accepted the Honorable Order of Saint Barbara, patron saint of the field artillery, for his service as a corporal in the U.S. Army during the Second World War in the Pacific Theater. "I want to thank you very much for ho...