[Dean's World] Ron Coleman: More on memorial days

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Posted by Ron Coleman:
More on memorial days
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1146756869.shtml


   May 2nd was the war / terror victims [1]Remembrance Day in Israel. (It
   [2]moves around depending on where it falls in the Jewish calendar,
   the way Jewish holidays do.) This is a day observed a week after
   [3]Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sira Schmidt [4]writes on
   Cross-Currents:

     I was struck by the fact that this yearâs remembrance day (for
     soldiers and terror victims), May 2, fell on the anniversary of the
     terrorrist attack that killed the pregnant Tali Hatuel and her four
     daughters in 2004 in Gush Katif.

     David Hatuel, Taliâs husband, has created his own memorial and it
     is connected to the Holocaust memorial in which I live â Kiryat
     Sanz. Kiryat Sanz in Netanya was founded by the [5]Klalusenberger
     Rebbe (may his memory be a blessing) who lost his wife and 11
     children in the Churban Europa, but remarried, had seven children
     (one son is now the Admor of Sanz), built Laniado Hospital and Sanz
     Medical Center, and encouraged others to reconstitute their
     destroyed families.

     Instead of building a Holocaust statue or sculpture, he did
     something elseâ¦.....

     Instead of building a Holocaust sculpture, the Klausenberger
     rebuilt lives of survivors in the US and Israel, establishing
     schools, yeshivas, senior citizensâ centers, shuls, vocational
     schools, a hospital.

     . . .

     Is it too idealistic of me to suggest that the millions of dollars
     spent on Holocaust memorials, including Yad Vashem, be used to
     encourage growth and regeneration of the Jewish people?

References

   1. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961256983&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
   2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_Remembrance_Day
   3. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/708857.html
   4. http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/05/04/the-controversy-over-holocaust-fallen-soldiers-terror-victims-memorials/
   5. http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2005/07/the_klausenberg.html