Monday, November 29, 2010
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Amish community asks forgiveness of Jews at Kotel - 'Representatives of the Amish community from the United States and Switzerland paid a visit to the Western Wall on Saturday night, where they asked the Jewish people's forgiveness for their group's silence during the Nazi extermination of Jews in the Holocaust...according to an announcement issued by the office of Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, with whom the group met, the Amish delegates saw great importance in coming to Israel and expressing their contrition, as well as declaring their unreserved support of the Jewish people and the State of Israel...'
Remarkable and praiseworthy for several reasons, including the effort it took to ask for forgiveness in Israel at the Kotel, and the relative remoteness of the Amish to the Holocaust? (Could any Amish past or present be tagged with responsibility beyond silence, of which so many in Europe and elsewhere were guilty of at an absolute minimum? I don't imagine that any self-identifying Amish served the Nazis or the Nazi war machine in any way.)