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"Paper Clips"
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BobW
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I agree with Julia Gorin and Heather Robinson of Front Page Magazine.
The movies doesn't benefit Jews. What's called Holocoast education has indeed backfired on Jews. Yes, again, it's about humanism.
The big event nowadays is to preach "tolerance". Today, the Holocoast museums are not only related to the Shoah. There are the Cambodian "Killing fields" museums and the soon to open Slavery Museum.
Jews fell into the trap when they accepted public funds to portray a Jewish theme. Watch the Holocoast museums in the US blend into the tolerance theme. This can be seen in the museum attributes of Montecello, Thomas Jefferson's home, now a national shrine, and open to the public by the private family foundation. It is never mentioned in the tours that the actual home and grounds was purchased by a Jew and donated to the United States. The buyer and benefactor was Commodore Uriah P. Levy.
SIDEBAR:
Whitwell's nearest big city is Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is indeed Klan territory although sheets are out and upscale garments are in.
The original Tennessee and Kentucky area, ie the unsettled territory west of Virginia and North Carolina, was explored and charted by, among others, the famous Daniel Boone. One of Daniel Boone's expeditions was an exploration contract with 2 Richmond, Virginia merchants, Isaiah Isaacs and Jacob Cohen in 1783. The receipt for the cash payment to Daniel Boone by Isaacs was in Yiddish.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on November 7, 2005 02:02 AM
"Paper Clips"
I went to view a prize winning documentary "Paper Clips" tonight. The showing was part of Holocaust Memorial Week. I urge you to see it.
Essentially it is a story of of an extraordinary event brought about by ordinary people. It took place in a small southern town of about 1600 in Klu Klux Klan country that was very poor due to the demise of their coal mine.
The Principal of the local school recognized that virtually everyone in the town was the same. She thought she wanted to provide a lesson for her kids that would teach tolerence of others. She decided to teach what intolerance and hatred can lead to. So it was decided to teach the holocaust.
One student mentioned that he couldn't comprehend the magnitude of the number "six million". One thing led to another and they decided to collect 6 million paper clips.
This is a movie that chronicals that quest which ended up gaining the attention of the world. They collected 20 million paper clips many with individual testimonies. They counted each and every clip and filed and organized the thousands of letters.
Do see the documentary and learn how it all ended. Especially if you like shedding copius tears.
FrontPageMag presents a different view, The Holocaust Without Jews . It argues that teaching the holocaust shouldn't be about teaching a generic message of man's inhumanity to man but should specifically be about man's inhumanity to Jews.
What do you think?
Posted by Ted Belman at November 6, 2005 09:46 PM