Andrew Zitcer is the cultural assets manager at the University of Pennsylvania. A big job. He is responsible for the Rotunda, a beautiful historic facility at the school. Having founded a progressive synagogue with his wife, Zitcer has now hosted the shocking exhibit by Breaking the Silence, documenting soldiers’ abuses in the Occupied Territories and the moral "red lines" that Israelis have repeatedly crossed in the name of security.
There has already been grumbling about the exhibit. Why wasn’t it kept at Hillel? In the ghetto. Reports the student newspaper:
The Rotunda became a site for the exhibition after Facilities and Real
Estate Services spokesman Andrew Zitcer took a tour of Hebron with
"Breaking the Silence."
I took that tour myself. It is completely disturbing and life-changing. Zitcer went back from it to his prominent job, which includes managing this "multipurpose,
multigenerational space," and presumably anyone who challenges him he will tell about what he saw in Hebron. American Jewry is changing.
