Jewish institutional leadership has created a kaleidoscopic reality where criticism of Israeli policies is equivalent to right-wing, white nationalist violence.
When the meaning is in the mission
January 1, 2021
I recently read with dismay two opinion pieces in the Heritage, both of which dealt with the “Uprooting Prejudice” exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Research and Education Center. Pardon the pun, but the exhibit obviously got under their skin, in Rabbi Bernard Rosenberg’s case because it didn’t deal specifically with the Holocaust, and in Alan Kornman’s because, supposedly, the Black Lives Matter movement is anti-Semitic. Let’s peel these back one at a time.
The mission statement of the HMREC is simple and straightforward. “We use the history and lessons of the Holocaust,” t.
When the meaning is in the mission
December 18, 2020
I recently read with dismay two opinion pieces in the Heritage, both of which dealt with the “Uprooting Prejudice” exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Research and Education Center. Pardon the pun, but the exhibit obviously got under their skin, in Rabbi Bernard Rosenberg’s case because it didn’t deal specifically with the Holocaust, and in Alan Kornman’s because, supposedly, the Black Lives Matter movement is anti-Semitic. Let’s peel these back one at a time.
The mission statement of the HMREC is simple and straightforward. “We use the history and lessons of the Holocaust,” they state, “to build a just and caring community free of anti-Semitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry.” Nowhere does it say we only teach about the Holocaust. Nowhere does it say we are limited in using the example of the Holocaust. It says that their mission is to use what we have learned from the Holocaust to, effectively, bu