![]() ![]() He said President Trump soon will be as irrelevant as an old Tweet, but Americans should be concerned about the Republican lawmakers and officials who enabled the President and his conspiracy theories. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the video above tells about growing up the son of a Nazi who had participated in Kristallnacht and lived a guilty, drunken life after the war. Tommy Raskin, Howard Bronstein, and all the others, may your memories always be for a blessing!Īrnold Schwarzenegger Compares Attack on Capitol to Kristallnachtįormer California Gov. ![]() ![]() It’s clear that whatever our religious viewpoint, or where we pray, or don’t pray at all, mental illness is a topic that we as a community must continue to address publicly, and understand, so that we can resist its dangerous embrace, even as we resist cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other killers. Others take a more enlightened viewpoint, saying mental illness is not really different from a physical illness both overtake us against our will. Suicide is considered by some religious authorities as a moral sin that transgresses God’s will. In the Jewish community, mental illness often is only whispered about. I’m certain that many of the Harvard Law School students who were classmates with Tommy Raskin may be asking themselves the same thing. Our lives had seemed so parallel why did this misfortune fall upon him and not on me? Howard never recovered from his mental illness, and died so very, very young. My heart broke whenever I saw him after that to witness him cut down in his prime, by this unseen enemy, was more than I could bear. Howard had a promising career in journalism, eventually migrating from Los Angeles to San Diego County, where he worked as a reporter for the Oceanside Blade-Tribune prior to the time he had to be hospitalized. ![]() We learned newspapering together on the UCLA Daily Bruin, and he was best man at Nancy‘s and my wedding back in 1968, but he never had the good fortune to marry. I had a college roommate at UCLA, Howard Bronstein, who at about the same age as Tommy Raskin began to fall deeper and deeper into depression and schizophrenia. I believe the Raskins chose to publicize their son’s death not only to pay him tribute, but to enable his memory to do one more service for humankind: helping to remove the stigma of mental illness by discussing it openly, without shame. Tommy Raskin‘s death is, of course, a tragedy for his family, and for a world that he might have made better. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me. He left us this farewell note on New Year’s Eve day: ‘Please forgive me. On the last hellish brutal day of that godawful miserable year of 2020, when hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people all over the world died alone in bed in the darkness from an invisible killer disease ravaging their bodies and minds, we also lost our dear, dear, beloved son, Hannah and Tabitha’s beloved irreplaceable brother, a radiant light in this broken world. He began to be tortured later in his 20s by a blindingly painful and merciless ‘disease called depression,’ as Tabitha put it on Facebook over the weekend, a kind of relentless torture in the brain for him, and despite very fine doctors and a loving family and friendship network of hundreds who adored him beyond words and whom he adored too, the pain became overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable at last for our dear boy, this young man of surpassing promise to our broken world. Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind. We have barely been able to scratch the surface here, but you have a sense of our son. SAN DIEGO - Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) and his wife Sarah Bloom, disclosed i n a moving essay that their son Tommy, who was eulogized during the opening day of Congress by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, had committed suicide while in the throes of severe depression.Īfter essaying about the remarkable life of their son, a Harvard Law School student who was a dedicated vegan and the champion of people who were bullied or ostracized, the couple wrote the following: *Jewish Federation supports, extols five local Jewish day schoolsīy Donald H. *American Jewish Congress catalogues Nazi imagery among Capitol rioters *Arnold Schwarzenegger Compares Attack on Capitol to Kristallnacht ![]()
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