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Robert A.H. Cohen

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Auschwitz revisited

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Robert Cohen shares a moving personal post on why he has become weary and wary of trying to take meaning or lessons from the Holocaust: “When it comes to the Palestinian people, the Holocaust has hardened our hearts and closed our minds. The scale of our own suffering has made us blind to their suffering – which we see as all of their own making. Perhaps this was inevitable. Why should a people abused and broken become saints? The opposite result is more often the outcome. I am asking for too much. Expecting something that no group is capable of.”

#JeSuisUnJuifBritannique

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The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism in Britain releases a poll purporting to document broad support for anti-Semitic attitudes, leaving many Jews insecure. But the context here must include the transformation of Israel’s image, from an admirable project to a regional bully

The summer of small Jewish thinking

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Samar al-Hallaq, 29, who worked in a tapestry history project in Gaza, was killed July 20 when the house she fled to for safety was struck by an Israeli missile. Samar’s two sons, 6 and 4, and five other members of her family were also killed. Samar was eight months pregnant. Her husband, Hussan, who recently completed a Master degree of Science in eBusiness, survived. Robert Cohen rewondered what the rest of Hussan’s life would be like.