In my house, I have a special shelf dedicated to pictures that capture the most precious of my memories. The display is dominated by photos taken at Columbia University. There is a picture of a little me sitting on my late father's lap, next to my wonderful aunt and uncle, visiting from Israel in the late '70s—they are now a fabulous 90 and 92, living near Tel Aviv. We are sitting at the foot of Alma Mater. There is a collage of my graduation from the Business School, on top of my husband's graduation two years later from the same,...