I was enjoying this beautiful story until I came to "...and felt a surge of sorrow as I thought about the words that have been exchanged in recent days between President Donald Trump and Chancellor Angela Merkel."  Angelika Merkel's administration stated there is no strain in US-German relations as a result of that discussion.  Of the 14 Million Jews in the world only 99,000 live in Germany.  Does everything have to have a Trump twist?