Once the calendar has turned to May, the parade notices, Jones Beach Air Show announcements and retail sales ads begin, ramping up until the last weekend of the month, which you likely think of as Memorial Day. For me, this last weekend will always be Decoration Day. My own Boomer memories include family trips to […]
Continue reading…Mother’s Day and a Remembrance
This Mother’s Day, I want to share something personal about my family’s history. My parents, Helene and Simon Silverberg, were both Holocaust survivors. Residents of Poland, they met in a displacement camp in Regensburg, in Western Germany. My mother’s mother and her sister were murdered in the Treblinka concentration camp and most, if not all, […]
Continue reading…How to Grill the Perfect Steak
Annual Summer BBQ Recipe Buy the steak Choose steaks best for grilling. Examples are flank steak, T-bone, tenderloin, and skirt steaks. With skirt steaks, always ask for an “outside” cut – it is larger, has more meat, and is more tender. Inside skirt steaks are thinner and tougher. They are primarily used for fajitas. The […]
Continue reading…Whatever Happened to Decoration Day?
Some of you reading this may never have heard the phrase Decoration Day. What we now call Memorial Day began as Decoration Day, when families went to local cemeteries or traveled to military cemeteries to decorate the graves of loved ones who died during military service. The Library of Congress reports that the first national […]
Continue reading…A Lesson from World War II
On May 8, 1945 – VE Day, The Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor from Charles B. De Chesne, of San Antonio, Texas. This letter shows how history repeats itself. Two excerpts stand out: “The frenzy of an all-powerful Executive run amok, the Utopian nightmare of a super-planner, the bloody cavalcade of […]
Continue reading…Thanksgiving Wishes from the Law Office of Stephen J. Silverberg, PC
We are grateful for our clients, colleagues, friends, and family and hope you find yourself in the company of loved ones on this Thanksgiving Day. With warm wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving from all of us.
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