Beshalach 5782 - An Anonymous Kiddush Hashem & Our Ability To Do The Extraordinary

Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first African-American and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He won two Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy, and in 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama.   However, all of those accolades seemed unlikely when Poitier first came to the United States from the Bahamas in his teen years.  He auditioned for a role in a movie but was badly embarrassed…