🏆. I’m going to call it: Nachum, you have won the internet award of the year. This is all the truths put eloquently and unsparingly into one place. Kol haKavod.
Beautifully expressed. And, true! I'm sending this essay to a Jewish friend who believes Israel is doing terrible things to the poor Palestinians. My favorite excerpt: "A person can memorize the Nuremberg Laws and learn nothing about his own capacity for conformity. He can tour Auschwitz, stare solemnly at the piles of shoes, and return home to demonize living Jews."
To paraphrase Dara Horn, if there’s one thing people love more than dead Jews, it is defenseless ones.
🏆. I’m going to call it: Nachum, you have won the internet award of the year. This is all the truths put eloquently and unsparingly into one place. Kol haKavod.
Good closing sentence. Well written, well done.
A sobering test for those who imagine they would have been among the righteous few: today, they get to find out.
Beautifully expressed. And, true! I'm sending this essay to a Jewish friend who believes Israel is doing terrible things to the poor Palestinians. My favorite excerpt: "A person can memorize the Nuremberg Laws and learn nothing about his own capacity for conformity. He can tour Auschwitz, stare solemnly at the piles of shoes, and return home to demonize living Jews."