Celebrating 80 years ...

The op-ed page in the Jan. 26, 1995, issue of the Jewish Western Bulletin carried an opinion piece by Avrum Rosensweig, “a campaign associate with the United Jewish Appeal in Toronto.” After describing the many ways in which UJA and other funds are being used for Holocaust education, Rosensweig wonders if it’s worth it, given the apparent indifference of the Jewish community to the tragedies of their fellow human beings in Bosnia, Rwanda and “even the murder of a young woman at a park near our homes.”

He concludes: “If our anger at the world’s silence during the worst time in the history of the Jewish people does not force us to shout like a mad dog when we see it happening to someone else, Jew or non-Jew, then perhaps we should sit down and talk and maybe think this whole Holocaust education thing through just a little bit more carefully.”