To me, this remains one of the world’s most compelling moments, especially since it’s unlike anything we could imagine in the U.S.
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, when everyone in Israel stops.
For two minutes once a year, there are more important things than getting to where you’re going.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins