This month our first topic is the rabbinic pipeline. We’re talking to Rabbi Leora Kling-Perkins about her experiences going through the process to get a job as a pulpit rabbi, and about our own experiences being on the other end of the rabbi search process. For our second segment we’re going to be talking about Holocaust comparisons. When, if ever, can and should we invoke the Holocaust in reflecting on current events?
Holocaust comparisons
Holocaust scholars ask DC museum to stop rejecting border camp comparisons by Kate Sullivan on CNN.com
Why Holocaust Comparisons Matter by Kate Cronin-Furman in Slate
Why Holocaust Analogies are Dangerous by Edna Friedberg, United States Holocaust Memoriam Museum
I’m a Jewish historian. Yes, we should call border detention centers “concentration camps.” By Anna Lind-Guzik in Vox
Stop Wasting Time Arguing About Concentration Camps by Cary Pildis in Tablet
A Crime by Any Name by Adam Serwer in The Atlantic
Why we resist Holocaust analogies — and why it’s time to embrace them by Emil Kerenji in The Washington Post
America’s Concentration Camps? hosted by Shereen Marisol Meraji and Adrian Florido for NPR’s Code Switch podcast
A History of American Concentration Camps with Andrea Pitzer hosted by Chris Hayes for NBC’s Why is This Happening? Podcast
Holocaust survivors are dying, but their stories are more relevant than ever, by Deanna Paul in The Washington Post
Endorsements
Mimi endorses Consumed by Flames: Remembering Life in Shlomo Carlebach’s Israeli Moshav, now engulfed in Flames by Shaul Magid in Tablet Mag, and asks for help finding a copy of the Nativ College Leadership Program in Israel’s Tisch CD, which is available to listen to on Zemirot Database.
Zahava endorses Mayyim Hayyim’s Seven Kavanot for Mikveh Preparation
Tamar endorses I Hate Everyone by Naomi Danis, and “Legend has it that the Statue of Liberty is a giant golem, frozen by the Maharal as she held a havdallah candle as high as she wanted her husband to be tall.” from Halakhot you’ve never heard of because they’re false
