{"id":1935,"date":"2018-01-23T17:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batkol.info\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2018-01-23T17:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:38:57","slug":"international-holocaust-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ratisbonne.org.il\/bk\/2018\/01\/23\/international-holocaust-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Holocaust Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BAT KOL INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH STUDIES, JERUSALEM<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Note from Maureena<\/strong><\/p>\n

27 January 2018:<\/strong><\/p>\n

International Holocaust Memorial Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For several years I taught a course on the Holocaust at the University of St. Michael\u2019s College in Toronto. It was a time of learning for myself. Perhaps one of the biggest lessons I learned was my own implication in what happened\u2014each Good Friday I participated in the\u00a0 solemn intercessory prayers, one of which was a prayer for the \u201cperfidies Judaeis\u201d which can mean \u201ctreacherous.\u201d\u00a0 It can also mean \u201cfaithless.\u201d After Vatican II, the prayer was changed:<\/p>\n

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Let us pray<\/p>\n

For the Jewish people,<\/p>\n

The first to hear the word of God,<\/p>\n

That they may continue to grow in the love of his name<\/p>\n

And in faithfulness to his covenant.<\/p>\n

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That was a beginning step.\u00a0 Other steps have been and continue to be taken. All Holy Scriptures of different faiths have problematic texts. On a day when we remember the murder of millions of Jews in Hitler\u2019s Nazi Germany, let us repent, the first element of which is recognition of sin, of problematic texts in our own scriptures and repair them through reinterpretation.<\/p>\n

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The following quotations give me food for thought:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Yehuda Bauer<\/p>\n

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\u201cMonsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common people, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Primo Levi<\/p>\n

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\u201cI swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Elie Wiesel<\/p>\n

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Maureena<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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