When the persecution comes from within our community
Jewish people are very familiar with the experience of persecution.
Jewish people are very familiar with the experience of persecution.
The famed Holocaust memoir, translated into Khmer, strikes an all-too-familiar theme for a people who felt the genocidal wrath of a despotic regime.
Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy lead rally protesting Chinese persecution of Falun Gong and China\’s involvement in Sudan.
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University the other day, he did not emerge with the \”propaganda victory\” that neocon pundit Bill Kristol assured us he would receive
Imagine the shock Temple Knesset Israel members felt when they came to Shabbat services five weeks ago and found scrawled on their wall, \”Jews die\” and a swastika. The Los Feliz congregation is largely elderly; many are Holocaust survivors.
A shock of a different sort awaited them last Saturday: scores of black and Latino teenagers and community leaders convened at the shul for a \”Day of Healing.\”
As the decades pass, why does the Holocaust retain, and even expand, its grip on the consciousness of the world and of its scholars, writers and filmmakers?