Liz wrote: > I'm sorry - I was being flippant in order to make a point. And probably didn't make it too well so my apolobies to you and the list. >
Thank-you. Apologies accepted. I did not realise that you were trying to be flippant. It didn't come through in the e-mail format. (Haven't found any flippancy emoticons, although I suppose ;-P comes closest.) >Funny, but I never have these questions from Rabbis or their families. For a very good reason. The Holocaust is the "low-level" entry to Jewish experience and for many English Jews, whose Jewish education may range from mediocre to non-existent, the sine qua non of Jewish experience tends to be the Holocaust. It's easy, requires minimal study, and the media is saturated by it every time a new Anne Frank play or film comes out. OTOH, better educated Jews, i.e., rabbis and families, don't need to use the Holocaust as a basis for Jewish identity because they have a much better grasp of Jewish history and texts. It's the former, which is a kind of intellectual laziness (lox-and-bagels Judaism, so to speak) that drives me screaming round the bend. (And for those who doubt whether it's intellectual laziness, just try asking them to name one Jewish source that postdates the Bible and predates Rashi or to name one Israeli Knesset member.) IMO, questions like "What were you [Brits] doing?" are a waste of time for all concerned. We can't change the past, only the future. Best wishes, Avital -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
