Never Again, O Lord, Never Again
Today is Yom Hashoah, the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust. Perhaps more than any other single event of the 20th Century, the Holocaust showed the incredible emptiness of the modern world. It is my opinion that the post-modern world truly began as a result of this awful, horrible event.

Sadly, genocide continues. The "Never Again" of the Holocaust is still a dream, a hope, a fervent prayer. So I turn to the famous words of Anne Frank for strength and promise- humanity might still be able to get through it all.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
--Anne Frank,
Diary of a Young Girl, entry for Saturday, July 15, 1944

--from learn@JTS