THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHES

ut also in search of other landscapes, more sublime than those of the Land ofIsrael. Although we grew up on the myth that the Golan Heights are the most beautifulin the world, we have come to know better. San Francisco is no less breathtakingthan Jerusalem. The Mala Mala Reserve in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, ismuch more impressive than the Hula puddle; and polar birds represent wild naturalbeauty, ancient and eternal, much more than the birds that nestle in the formergarbage dump of Hiria. What do my kids say? They send me images of expansivelandscapes, but write me of other, spiritual landscapes. The new spirituality that isrevealed to them is contained in their letters home. We miss you, Dad, we long andyearn to be with you, but we find here what we don’t have at home. We love andwant to love even more. We, the generation of the new age, are open to and enrichedby meetings and encounters with whatever is different from us. We are not threatenedand do not keep to ourselves; on the contrary. My children, our children, seek anencounter with worlds that have not been tainted with the bloody Shoah. They searchfor a spirituality that is based on dialogue, not trauma. They seek the calm ofBuddhist countries and want to bring it back home with them to put us all on a softercourse of life that is accepting and containing, not hostile, suspicious, and sharpedged,that rejects all. They are children who touch the spiritual even though they arenot religious.The new paradigms that originated from the Shoah must be sensitive and directedtoward the creation of a better human and better humanity, toward people andcultures that will never again produce slaughterers like the Nazis and will not allowvictimization. One law will be in the land for the persecuted of the entire world,whatever group: Armenian, Gypsy, Jew, homosexual, migrant, or a refugee fromRwanda, Cambodia, or Palestine. The new theology, especially the Jewish one, mustbreak out of the boundaries of the old faith and make the faith in the human, God’screation, a tenet of its legacy and traditions, as a mandatory basis for a dialogueamong the believers of all faiths.It has been a long time since the world was as divided in its principles as it is today.On the one hand, democracy is in bloom, and liberties, rights, and constitutionaldefenses of individuals are widespread. On the other hand, fundamentalist, absolutist,