Lea Streisand about anti -Semitism, Nazis and empathy | EUROtoday

On October 7, final yr, I used to be sitting at a memorial occasion on a podium alongside Hermann Simon, the founding director and lengthy -time director of the Centrum Judaicum.

“Please don’t ask how I am doing,” I had defined to the moderator in a preliminary dialogue, “otherwise I’ll start crying immediately.”

Fortunately, historian Hermann Simon was much less squeamish. “Well, how should I do it,” he grumbled in a deep voice in a large Berlin -style method and lifted the palms crossed over the abdomen. “Bad natural!”

Simon reported sensible issues after the terrorist assault, discussions within the synagogue group, whether or not one ought to come collectively for prayer (a Jewish service can solely start when ten non secular males are current) on Friday, October 13, 2023, which Hamas had referred to as for the “Day of revenge” towards all Jews worldwide. “Many of us are no longer the youngest,” mentioned Simon, “if someone came, we couldn’t even run away.” They wouldn’t have talked about emotions. Why too? It was equally unhealthy for everybody.