Sunday Sentence
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
True, the attack was unsuccessful, and was carried out (deliberately?) when our house of worship was unoccupied but it takes little imagination to picture a different scenario, scenes from the Jewish historical rolodex of fires burning Torahs and humans together.
Source: Sara Yael Hirschhorn, “America’s Synagogues Are Burning: A Turning Point for U.S. Jews” (Haaretz)
A grim reminder, but ever a necessary one.
“Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.” (“Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.”) – Heinrich Heine.
(https://www.bookbrowse.com/quotes/detail/index.cfm/quote_number/390/wherever-they-burn-books-in-the-end-will-also-burn-human-beings)
Now this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/26/jews-in-germany-warned-of-risks-of-wearing-kippah-cap-in-public