Friday, July 13, 2012

Scrutiny of the lesser

I was reading the account of the holocaust by Livia Bitton Jackson

http://www.amazon.com/Have-Lived-Thousand-Years-Holocaust/dp/0689823959/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342158883&sr=8-1&keywords=livia+jackson

In an early chapter, she talks about living in Hungary when the Nazis invaded and that they took away her bicycle.   A horrible event having it been a great wish to have one and she had not even yet ridden one.

Yet today, I read accounts of the Satmar Jewish communities in New York and who knows where else that they are forbidding our children to even own a bicycle today.

Where have we come in 70 years?

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