learn to respect history. and what happened here from which to preserve sure. that the jewish community in christ is getting together for shabat they ve rented a few rooms in a back street basement there hasn t been a synagogue here since soviet times. the head of the community regina symon and co has taken it upon herself to set up a small museum about the city s jewish history including the holocaust. symon and co once the newly found jewish victims to be read buried at a cemetery and she wants their memory to be honored an obligation she thinks lies squarely with the city even is god should ensure you girls and the jewish community doesn t owe the city anything this mass grave is everyone s responsibility the jews who were shot here were prisoners in the ghetto but they were also citizens of brest plain and simple no matter what ethnicity they were they were residents of
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a white nationalist, i don t want your support. instead, he s doing something more than playing footsie with these people. and it s just, you know, that s what s happening. those are the facts of what s happening right now. but, you know, i know a lot of people are saying that the whole jewish community doesn t want him to come. the truth is the jewish community is torn. there are people including some family members of people who were killed i m hearing who do want him here so it s a painful thing. it sort of tells you everything, right? the fact that the president of the united states coming to a community is so divisive. i mean, i can t think of something think about when george bush who was certainly not popular in manhattan came to manhattan, went to ground zero after 9/11 and took out that blow horn. people were unified by that. the idea that a president coming to a community is just such a divisive thing and you have our local politicians not want to be associated with him. th
have made peace with because they think that hagee is providing support to israel and it s true that somebody like hagee will gather up the followers to lobby on the hill, sanctions against iran or military strikes against iran or what have you, so i think for people who share that position, he s seen as an ally. the jewish community doesn t really get involved in politics particularly that way. they re more focused on religion and so, i think that for even for people within the hawkish pro israel jewish community, that this is going to be highly problematic. sarah pozner, thanks for doing the leg work on this. we would not have known about it had you not done this. i wouldn t have looked to see if this was coming. it s mind blowing. thank you for being here. that you know, rachel. stay with us. [ both cheer ]
take and somebody like john hagee who s promised jewish leerds that we won t prof latize to jews. have made peace with because they think that hagee is providing support to israel and it s true that somebody like hageric e will gather up the followers to lobby on the hill, sanctions against iran or military strikes against iran or what have you, so i think for people who share that position, he s seen as an ally. the jewish community doesn t really get vold in politics that way. they re more focused on religion and so, i think that for even for people within the hawkish pro israel jewish community, that this is going to be highly problematic. sarah pozner, thanks for doing the leg work on this. we would not have known about it had you not done this.