Yellow badge Star of David called “Judenstern”. Part of the exhibition in the Jewish Museum Westphalia, Dorsten, Germany. The wording is the German word for Jew (Jude), written in mock-Hebrew script. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I’ve been writing about the series The Bible. In the last post, I wrote about the trials and tribulations of the Jewish people having issues with invaders.
The narrator Keith David said the Romans were the worst? For then, yes. Who could have imagined the Shoah (Holocaust).
When I was fifteen, Mom and Dad took us to Europe. We were in Rome walking by the Arch of Trajan. One of the things carved in the arch was the victory over the Jews and the menorah. Dad looked up at the arch and said very quietly, “I’m here, where are you?”
That’s always stuck with me. In Eastern Europe, my wife Elaine said the same thing about some guy named Hitler. She would point to be and say, “He’s here, where are you?”
Yeah, we are still here through the centuries. Don’t like it, oh well, it sucks to be you.
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Author Michael Charton 
Wonderfully stated … I am deeply moved & blessings to your dear Father – yes we are still & will always [G-d willing] be here!
Thank you so much my dear friend. Friday will be one year since the last time I saw my father.