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The photo appears to be looking up at a cathedral ceiling with inset stained glass windows. Below the windows looks like a walkway with arched openings.
Genre: Sorta Fiction
Word Count: 100
BETH ISRAEL
Millie can never forget the ground rumbling or the sound of the shattering glass. She was only five the day someone bombed the temple. Two months later someone, who turned out to be the KKK, bombed Rabbi Nussbaum’s home.
“Why’d they do that? I don’t understand.”
“May you never understand, Millie-Nillie.” Daddy read from the book of Isaiah. “‘When you walk through the fire you will not burn.’”
Fifty-eight years later, Millie watches the horrifying newscast. Photos of scorched Torah scrolls appear on the screen. She murmurs in agreement with the temple president, “This won’t stop anything. We will rebuild.”
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Copyright © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 
I am beginning to reconcile myself to the fact that mankind is incapable of learning from their past mistakes. I realize how fatalistic that sounds- but anything less than incapable sounds like a lie.
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Dear Violet,
I completely understand. Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Inspirational, Rochelle
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Thank you, Neil.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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When people claim that all other prejudices have been done away with, it will still be “acceptable” to hate Jews.
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Dear James,
What comes to mind here is a good old song from the 1960’s by Tom Lehrer. https://www.youtube.com/embed/aIlJ8ZCs4jY?list=RDaIlJ8ZCs4jY
BTW, who decided that white people are superior?
Thank you for stopping by.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Sometimes there’s simply nothing else to do but keep getting up and carrying on, despite everything. Yet the torch of anti-semitism seems to keep being passed from one generation to another, when you would think by now it would have been extinguished, dead and buried.
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Dear Sandra,
One would think we’d learn something from the Holocaust. Yet, despite the meticulous records of the Nazis, wealth of photos and firsthand accounts, there are Holocaust deniers. It’s disturbing to see the uptick of racism and antisemitism, isn’t it?
Thank you for taking the time to read and comment.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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It’s such a shame that people feel like they have to destroy places of worship & historical places & artifacts. It takes away a little bit of humanity as well. A timely story M’Luv.
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Dear Jan,
We have learned nothing from history…at least many haven’t. May we all be like Millie and not be able to understand. Thanks, M’luv.
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Dear Rochelle,
I’m with Sandra. It is beyond me how this hatred keeps being shared from generation to generation. Well, not really. People are set in their ways and it takes a lot to break that chain…
All that to say that once again, you have given us an enjoyable read which also taught us another bit of history.
Shalom and lotsa love without prejudice,
Dale
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Delicately determined, m’lady.
Sadly, as noted above, this is a story for the ages.
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Imagine if we could all just get along? It saddens me that I don’t immediately recognise the references in your story (off to check out the link next), because such atrocities are so common.
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As the song says –
I’d like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace through out the land.
Why is it not happening?
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