“I am not comparing events, I don’t believe in comparing suffering, but I do think that the Holocaust and Nakba shape the collective identity of two people. I would like people to find the space to hear about it, to be more educated,” Bloch told Lilith.
A world in which we are so willing to make sure justice is served to a 95 year old Nazi, but where our leaders call modern white supremacists “very fine people,” is confusing indeed.
The question is less about why the children are being separated from their adults and more about when this madness it stop and how soon will the children already wrenched from their parents be re-united with them
The salient point here is that the Trump/Sessions “zero tolerance” policy offends us to the very core of our humanity––as Jews, as women, as parents, but most importantly as people. It offers zero tolerance to the very nucleus of what makes us human.
A Jewish-Polish friendship is haunted by the Holocaust in this new novel.
Everyone who made up what would have been my Jewish family was lost in the War. No one taught my Buba to cook.
Rachel Hall grew up haunted by her mother’s Holocaust history. When is the right time to tell her daughter?
“Part of me loves that Anne Frank has become such a potent figure of dignity and the fight against oppression. But part of me has experienced a loss.”
