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| Burn Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC February 2024 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Then I stood alone in the garage and asked myself why, in 2024, was I afraid of being identified as a Jew?
See, it’s Holocaust Remembrance Day today. And if I remember anything from my Jewish upbringing, it’s two simple words: never again.
And for much of my life, I’ve subscribed to the notion that never again will something so monstrous be allowed to happen to any identifiable group.
Yet here I stand in an ordinary garage in an ordinary town in Canada, and I’m afraid of being singled out. Simply because of who I am.
Why is that? Why is Jew-hatred still a thing? Why is hatred still an acceptable pillar of curriculum in countless schools and communities? Why has this become normalized? Why haven’t we learned from history?
So many questions - and I have no answers for any of them as I carry the recycling box down the driveway, careful to ensure those pesky matza boxes don’t give me away, and don’t give anyone a reason to look more closely at me, my home, my family.
Never again? Not quite. Not now, and possibly never at all.
#ldnont #YomHaShoah #NeverAgain
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Why we must remember, January 2023
Not quite never again, January 2022
The dangers of forgetting about Auschwitz, January 2022
Never again means never again, May 2019
No, Mr. Trump, one is never too many, January 2017
They hate Jews, too, July 2016
Never forget, April 2012
On never keeping silent, July 2011
Hatred through an 8-year-old's eyes, June 2009
Kristallnacht + 70, November 2008
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