Kesher Talk

A different angle on Yom HaShaoh. Turns out young Israelis feel the same way I do about Yom HaShoah commemorations.

. . . the club memorial is styled as an alternative ceremony, tailored to a generation that has grown restless listening to Hannah Senesh poetry and anthems from the Warsaw Ghetto partisans year after year. . . . "People are fed up with the usual movies and ceremonies,” said Ravid Brenner, 23, part of the standing-room crowd at the ceremony. “Still, all of our grandparents survived the Holocaust, so it’s very close.”

. . . “Why do people ask where was God in the Holocaust and no one asks where was God at a terrorist attack,” asked Koby Arielli, a 31-year-old fervently Orthodox journalist who confessed that he couldn’t connect to the Holocaust because his grandparents weren’t in Europe.

posted by Judith @ 5/07/2003 12:20:00 PM