Israel at a Crossroads
Last week while in New York, we visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage and its Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Battery Park. One cannot help but be struck by the horror of the Nazis, their collaborators, and those that facilitated and perpetrated the persecution, systematic murder, and decimation of Jews, Romas, and other ‘unwanted people’. Men, women, children, young, old, doctors, artists, lawyers, craftsmen, etc. It did not matter. But there is more to the story than the rise of the Nazis, the concentrations camps, and ultimately the death camps. The holocaust or Shoah, was but the most recent chapter in thousands of years of persecution and anti-Semitism. Many love to celebrate the holy crusades, yes these same crusades murdered Jews. The glory of the Columbus voyage in 1492; financed by the Spanish crown while the same crown systematically rounded up Jews and Muslims and offered the choice of conversion to Christianity or death. I h...