Let’s unite over Sinai, not Auschwitz – or Pittsburgh
Years ago, Rabbi David Hartman warned Jews not to build an identity on a covenant of Auschwitz. Sadly, we’re still stuck in the old, familiar Jewish trauma cycle.
A woman bows her head in front of a memorial on October 28, 2018, at the Tree of Life synagogue after a shooting there left 11 people dead in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on October 27(photo credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP)ByGIL TROY