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reconciliation
Seeking Holocaust reconciliation in Lithuania, from Los Angeles
Eitan Arom
September 21, 2016
The Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, occupies a stately stone building on a large, forested park in the city’s center. It is notably not a Holocaust museum. To find the Holocaust Exposition, look for a small, clapboard wooden building on a narrow side street.
Amid complicity debate, Polish clergy to attend 70th anniversary of post-Holocaust pogrom
Jewish Journal
April 29, 2016
Polish clergy and researchers will hold a seminar in Kielce about a historically significant pogrom in which locals killed Holocaust survivors in that city 70 years ago.
U.S. pressing Israel, Turkey to reconcile
Jewish Journal
September 7, 2011
The Obama administration is pressing Israel and Turkey to renew reconciliation talks.
Ziman and Lee hold hands, pledge friendship
Tom Tugend
May 1, 2008
A highly charged controversy between two self-described \”passionate\” advocates, one African American, the other Jewish, appears to have ended on Thursday (May 1), with pledges of mutual friendship and future cooperation.
Ex-JDL member urges faith without fanaticism
Amy Klein
February 29, 2008
Review of former Jewish Defense League member Brad Hirschfield\’s \”You Don\’t Have to Be Wrong for Me To Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism\” (Harmony Books, Random House, 2007).
John Paul II and the Jews
Rabbi Marvin Hier
April 7, 2005
With the passing of Pope John Paul II, we have lost the strongest advocate for reconciliation with the Jewish people in the history of the Vatican. This pope was determined to embark on a new course and leave that shameful period behind. From the very beginning of his papacy, when he first visited his native Poland, there were hints that this pope was going to break with tradition and not follow the centuries-old script, with respect to the Jews.
Another Chance
Rabbi Lisa Edwards
March 3, 2005
With great sadness my friends decided to divorce in January 2001. They had given themselves one year into the new century to see if they could make it work, and it didn\’t seem as if they could. Then, in 2002, they happily reconciled. When asked why, they say Sept. 11 brought them back together; it helped them refocus their priorities.
Familial Forgiveness
Rabbi Susan Laemmle
January 4, 2001
The syllabus for my USC general education class includes both Shakespeare\’s \”The Tempest\” and chapters 37-50 of Genesis — the Joseph story or \”novella.\” These two narratives share themes that commend themselves: forgiveness and reconciliation. Both Prospero and Joseph were set upon by their own brothers and narrowly escaped death. Both protagonists contributed to their victim role — Prospero through neglecting governance and Joseph by insensitive boasting. In the end, though, both forgive those who abused them — enabling their family circle to be repaired and the next generation blessed. Just as Prospero realizes that \”the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance,\” so too does the instinct for reconciliation surge through Joseph.
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