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Today is Tamar Frankel's 95th birthday!! Born on July 4, 1925, she is the quintessential immigrant: born in Palestine to a German father and Russia mother, she moved to the US in 1963. She and I talked last week, have a listen: 1/14
Tamar on fiduciary duty: "You can't have conflicting duties and be a fiduciary at the same time." 2/14
..."I'm the fiduciary of my students with respect to grading. If one of the student's parents gives me a cup of coffee before the exam, and even though I did not drink the coffee, that may raise a problem." 3/14
Trust: "Trust is important because we rely on others, often without any proof. So knowledge must be free of conflicts. Trustworthiness requires true expertise and avoiding conflicts or getting permission for conflicts. Trust can give us a lot richer life." 4/14
On living with different cultures (she has a recent book on culture): "Well, the message, and even my own background, is personal, which I usually don't share with others, but the thing is, I couldn't help myself." 5/14
"Culture is the system of rules that are similar to law but the rules and the enforcement are different. I was born and lived in a community that fought for state of a safe home for Jews." 6/14
"And the Jewish culture reflected cultures of countries from all over the world because that's where Jews were spread. You had Yemenites who are black and also speak Arabic and you had German Jews and European Jews who were white and spoke a tremendous amount of languages." 7/14
"So there were thousands and thousands of these sophisticated Jews who had survived extermination camps and the fellow Jews used for experiments that were horrible even to discuss." 8/14
"When you look at my life, my mother was a Russian nurse and my father was a German lawyer and yet they loved each other and they had the dream of creating this Jewish state that would be a refuge to anybody and treat them fairly." 9/14
"They were different in each and every respect: the language, the food, the food, the manners, and sometimes even jokes. But LOVE, and a joint purpose brought them together." 10/14
"We argue, yes, but less to win and more to convince and find a common denominator. Other countries and nations might benefit from this approach, more than hatred and brutality against those who are not like us." 11/14
"I offer some thoughts about building relationships with people of other cultures. Some of my suggestions include listening, learning, first, and then judging much later after we gather the information and think about it." 12/14
"We must find a way to allow other people to be different, as long as we share our values, core values. We need not be exactly the same." 13/14
"The foundations of human group culture are really the same. Groups exist because we cannot climb alone. Like it or not, we depend on each other so let us share and help rather than compete and fight." 14/14 
Happy Fourth, friends!!
Happy Fourth, friends!!
