THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHES

JUDAISM IS A CIVILIZATION THAT IS THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD.Naturally, this energetic old mistress encompasses all aspects of life. She includespast wisdoms and present follies. She has absorbed all human evil and given awaymuch humanistic goodness. She has seen everything and everyone and survived it all.Judaism is ancient, but her future—and with it our own—is ahead of her.Judaism is an astounding culture, complex and full of light, and naturally it alsocontains some shadows. It often blinds us by its brilliance, experience, and wisdom,so we do not pay attention to its other layers. This happens when you attempt tocontain everything; there will be much good and also some bad. The solution is not tobe a foolish follower of light, nor to surrender to the intimidating shadows. I will notreject the beliefs, people, or a way of life that I abhor if it is part of Jewishcivilization. On the contrary, they are inseparable from Judaism and therefore fromme; they are like the dark shadows that a painter adds to the outline of a figure inorder to accentuate its luminescent qualities. I will not make my work easier by sayingthat all circumcised Jewish fundamentalists, or extremist followers of Moses’ Torah,or the Sabbath-observing racists are not part of me. They are. They are part ofJudaism’s flowerbed and against them I direct my first battle on the path to returningmy people, who have derailed during the past few years, to the tracks that theirpredecessors and founders laid for them. My father did not raise me by these beliefs