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tackle today’s challenges.
I believe that among both
Jews and Arabs, “partners”
do exist, people who believe
that despite our differences
and our disagreements we can
forge a path to coexistence
and mutual respect.
But we need more such
people, many more. Join us!
Yakov Nagen is director of Ohr Torah
Stone’s Blickle Institute for Interfaith
Dialogue and the Beit Midrash for
Judaism and Humanity.
oppressors and remaining
sane in a world gone mad.
Upon arrival at Auschwitz-
Birkenau on the night of Aug.
3-4, 1943, a little boy named
Benjamin was separated from
his mother and sent directly
into a gas chamber with his
father and grandparents.
Benjamin was my
half-brother. Even though my
mother rarely spoke about
him, I know that she thought
of him every day of her life.
Since her death in 1997,
Benjamin has continued to
exist within me. I see his face
in my mind, try to imagine
his voice, his fear as the gas
chamber doors slammed
shut, his final tears. If I were
to forget him, he would dis-
appear.
And I write about him so
that my grandchildren, and
their children and grandchil-
dren in turn, will remember
Benjamin as well. My poems
are my legacy to them.
Menachem Z. Rosensaft is asso-
ciate executive vice president and
general counsel of the World Jewish
Congress and teaches about the law
of genocide at the law schools of
Columbia and Cornell Universities.
He is the author of Poems Born in
Bergen-Belsen.
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