Funerals and memorials
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Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. I performed a song in Yiddish and a song in Hebrew at my synagogue.
I've had three funerals in the last month - one of which I officiated.
I'm pretty close to burn out and figure this is a safe place to vent. -
I read in the newspaper that 66% of american 18-35 dont know what Auschwitz is against 41% of americans of all age, 52% american think Hitler took power by force as well. These numbers are frighting.
source New york times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/us/holocaust-education.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&mtrref=t.co -
If we don't know the past, how can we understand it?
If we don't understand the past, how can we understand the present? -
It's sad, but modern young people don't know anything but how to whine about everything.
Back when Tony Blair was PM of the UK, they brought in Civics and there was a TV show hosted by John Prescott, the then Deputy PM. Anyway, in the very first episode, they had 2 girls that got A*** (over exaggerated perfect score) in the class. They had no idea who they were talking to and when asked, they said they thought he was Churchill.
Jamie Oliver did a TV series about kids eating healthy food and the kids had no idea what 90% of the stuff was, including common items like apple and potatoes.
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