Word: holocaust
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...young. It was nothing much to speak of, a simple striped pattern on poor person's cloth. Yet somehow this garment had complexity woven into it as well, a product of the loom of nationalism, bigotry and inhumanity that gave rise to that most unfathomable of evils--the Nazi Holocaust...
This week, as we commemorate Yom Ha-Shoah or the Day of Remembrance, the question naturally arises: what precisely was this evil called the Holocaust? How do we quantify it? Six million were murdered, but the numbers are not central. Twenty million Russians died in the same...
West goes even further than Lerner's hollow warnings of Jewish destruction. He threatens a defensive war against an oncoming American holocaust facing Blacks. "If we don't come up with a multiracial, progressive strategy, then we are simply headed toward Armageddon," he says. "I mean race war...That's quite imaginable in this society...
...Rindge put this up before the Holocaust,"Chester says. "We now understand the true meaningof these type messages...
...particular yardstick of this phenomenon is remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust. Why dwell on suffering, including in the seder? The answer is simple--it reminds us of what can happen, and alerts us to the plight of others in similar situations. But we many never know completely how Jews would act in the absence of suffering--society has never allowed us to try this experiment...