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F. Kevin Browett
Chief Operating Officer
The 6 million kedoshim of the Shoah must
be remembered by the entire Jewish people,
not just by those who survived or who have a
direct family connection to the kedoshim.
But if we look, if we think for a moment,
all of us Jews have a direct family connection
to the 6 million kedoshim, and just like we
remember the churban of our Temple, we
obey the availes (mourning) of Tisha b'Av,
we should also remember the charbon of
Europe.
God forbid, to forget is to make Hitler
the victor, and we want to say to our Tati
(our Divine Father), we want to say to God,
yudanu ki chatanu (we know that we sinned)
but we are still your children have rachmanos
(mercy) on your children, grant us ... bring
us the geula shalaima bimhaira biyamainu
(complete redemption quickly in our days).
Michael Weiss
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Holocaust survivor and speaker
at the Holocaust Memorial Center
Jewish Teachings
Reject 'The Big Lie'
I read with interest Contributing Editor
Robert Sklar's essay "P.A. Spews The 'Big Lie'
— Just Like The Nazis" (July 9, page 32). I
have had an interest for years in the teaching
of hatred to children.
A number of years ago, Mr. Sklar wrote
an article ("Changing The Lens Of Hate
April 14, 2005) that referenced my first paper
on the subject. Since then, I have published
another two papers that provide additional
insight into the dynamics of teaching chil-
dren to hate and their concomitant propen-
sity to resort to violence.
I would like to mention these points.
First, the danger of false speech is
clearly stated in the Torah, in Exodus (23:7):
"Midvar Sheker Tirchak" ("Keep Away from
False Speech").
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, in a two-
volume series written in Yiddish titled Kotsk,
summarized aspects of the wisdom of the
Kotsker Rebbe: "What do you need to do to
make the truth grow? If one buries the false-
hood (sheker), the truth will blossom:"
Another passage states: "Living with false
speech results in holding the falsehood as
truth. Living with falsehood and not know-
ing it means that one is living in a world of
imagination" [i.e., as opposed to reality].
As Mr. Sklar's recent essay indicates,
believing that false assertions are the truth
creates a very dangerous situation. It is fas-
cinating to realize that this danger was rec-
ognized in the Torah thousands of years ago
and by the Kotsker Rebbe 200 years ago.
The disturbing realization is that there has
been little success in countering the false-
hoods internalized by members of many
societies over the millennia.
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and will not be attending the Orchard Lake
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Detroit Jewish News
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Louis Brandeis as Elder U.S. Statesman, Zionist,
Is Emphasized In the Fifth Volume of His Letters
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L
ouis Brandeis (1856-1941) was,
perhaps, the foremost Jewish
legal mind in American history.
His career was phenomenal, to say the
least. He first developed a reputation
as the "people's lawyer" for his work on
behalf of the public interest and then
served on the Supreme Court of the
United States from 1916-1939.
While serving on the Supreme Court,
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Jewish Americans in all walks of life. A
JN article from May 4, 1979, noted that,
in 1936, he wrote a letter to a "strug-
gling law student" from Detroit.
"The fact that one is a Jew and
`without connections:" Brandeis wrote,
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Words to live by.
The "struggling" Jewish law student,
Hyman Parker, did indeed earn his law
degree from Wayne State University.
He became a respected labor lawyer
in Detroit and, eventually, director of
the Michigan Employment Relations
Commission.
Thanks to his son, Dr. Philip Parker,
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