In the true spirit of liberation from bondage? www.whitehouse.gov/blog photo [thanks, Steve].
Tag Archives: Jews and Judaism
Holocaust: Get Over It
Masada, Southern Israel 1978
Israel is “held hostage by memory” and should get over the Holocaust, a former speaker of the Knesset says. In a column and a new book, he says Israelis are so bent on “never again” becoming victims that they’ve become blind to injustice or suffering that does not involve Jews. What about Israel’s humanistic founding values?
I rebelled against the Judaism I was taught in my youth precisely because of the meaninglessness of a religious identity that, as far as I could see, was grounded on nothing but having been victimized.
The centuries-long controversy over Yom Kippur’s Kol Nidre. – By Michael Weiss – Slate Magazine
Antisemites’ Favorite Jewish Prayer: “For observant Jews, Kol Nidre represents the liturgical kickoff for Yom Kippur (opening services are named for the prayer, which means “All vows”), a repetitive and crescendoing piece of Aramaic recited before sunset on the Day of Atonement. For anti-Semites, it’s evidence that Jews are duplicitous and two-faced.” (Slate)
