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Holocaust Educator’s Conference, Museum of Jewish Heritage

23 July, 2003 Daniel Brenner Comments 3 comments

Remarks I made at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust At the Holocaust Educators Conference, Summer, 2003: Earlier today, we heard from both David Weiss Halivni and Neil Gilman, both of whom expressed their concern that the holocaust is fading into irrelevance. They both lamented the fact that the holocaust is becoming a chapter in history devoid of the emotions of rage and horror that it once held. Perhaps the presentation by Annette Insdorf who…

18 June, 2003 Daniel Brenner Comments 1 comment

The Future of Foreskins By Daniel S. Brenner In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatricians issued a statement that decreed circumcision an elective surgery. Since then, the number of male babies undergoing circumcision has been in sharp decline. Many HMOs no longer cover the in-house hospital procedure, and the cut once done on 85% of males is now performed on less than half of American born boys. Many read this trend as a reflection of a growing social and environmental…

Revelation – Community-Wide Shavuot Keynote, Shomrei Emunah, Montclair, New Jersey

23 May, 2003 Daniel Brenner Comments 0 Comment

Revelation and its Discontents By Daniel S. Brenner A sign I saw while taking a shabbes walk read: Hear God’s Word. Be God’s Voice. God is still speaking. -First Church of Christ The sign made me think of the Sunday mornings of my youth. Growing up as I did, a Jew boy in North Carolina, a gefilte fish out of water, Sunday morning was about as exciting as watching paint dry. All my neighborhood friends were at church, and that…