I believe Jews are compassionate people because of what we've suffered. We must not put that suffering onto others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message.
On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.
Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us.
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
The key to Judaism's survival is the emotional attachment to the religion.
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
Jewish people are tough people. They believe in something and believe it really strong, and I find it fascinating that a small country like Israel is as powerful as it is.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.