It's About the Future Not the Past - Reader comments at The New York Sun

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Submitted by Dave Levy, Jul 20, 2007 03:55

It's okay to go back to the past, to learn about and research Jewish history.

But in reality, it's just history, of a people who in the main, no longer exist.

Visiting Holocaust museums is fine, if you like to see what happened to the hapless Jews in Russia and Europe, and would have been all our fates but for a few bad decisions by Hitler.

Our Jewish future is not in an Orthodox Yeshiva in Russia, or Poland, or Germany, but in two countries, the US and Israel. Let's not escape where our responsibilities are now.

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