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er 29, 2004 ‘And you mean to tell me there’s a man coming to my campus to speak. To brainwash people that the Holocaust never existed?’ In tears she called her mother. — highly-strung Jewish girl with a martyr complex. Boulder, Colorado, September 25, 2004 Far from home Students away from home for the first time talk about Yom Kippur [abridged] By Cindy Sutter Camera Staff Writer David Irving comments: ” TALK about Yom Kippur.”
One thing that is missing in this mawkish little article is that (a) the person they are writing about, the historian, has never written a book or article on the Holocaust in his life (he finds it boring, boring, boring, as a subject); and (b) Yom Kippur — isn’t that the day when all religious Jews (like for example Deborah Lipstadt ) get to intone a little chant called the Kol Nidre, whereby they are absolved from guilt for breaking any vows sworn during the next twelve months, namely from
this Day of Atonement to the next, no matter how many vows, oaths, promises, contracts, engagements, agreements and the like that they may violate, and no matter how often they may perjure themselves in their dealings with us, the rest of the community. They have been given a blank cheque in advance.
True, they “ask forgiveness for wrongs they have committed both intentional and unintentional,” but the Kol Nidre specifically asks forgiveness for all those wrongs they will commit during the next twelve months too. I suspect this was why Prof. Lipstadt decided not to give evidence in the Trial. Because I was going to ask her outright, under cross-examination, then dismiss her as a witness. I sometimes think it is we who should be acting like the victims, not they. May be I am wrong. .
THE text of the Kol Nidre prayer: “All vows, prohibitions, oaths, consecrations or equivalent terms that we may vow, swear, consecrate, or prohibit upon ourselves from this Yom Kippur until the next Yom Kippur, may it come upon us for good regarding them all, we repudiate them henceforth. They all will be abandoned, cancelled, null and void; they will be without power and without standing.
Our vows shall not be valid vows; our prohibitions shall not be valid prohibitions; and our oaths shall not be valid oaths.” BRIAN Cocos, a University of Colorado freshman majoring in physics, faces a decision about how to observe Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which is today. […] REST OF ARTICLE TEMPORARILY WITHDRAWN AT THE BEHEST OF THE JOURNALIST CINDY SUTTER — CLICK MASTHEAD FOR LINK. WHAT IS QUOTED HERE IS USED UNDER THE RULES OF FAIR USAGE […]
For Tiffany Aragan , CU has been something of a culture shock. The 17-year-old chose CU for the education it had to offer, for the natural beauty of the area and because it was so different from where she had grown up: North Miami Beach, Fla. “I wanted to come somewhere that’s diverse in culture,” says Aragan, who is in the pre-med program. That diverse world has taught a difficult lesson this year. Growing up, Aragan participated in a large Jewish community and attended Jewish schools.
This spring, she took a trip to Poland with March of the Living, an international Jewish group. There she saw concentration camps, cemeteries and other historical sites related to the Holocaust. She then visited Israel, finishing high school there. A few weeks after starting school at CU, she heard students in her Hebrew class talking about a 2002 incident in which a Sukkah put up by Hillel was defaced by swastikas.
Then students then began talking about the upcoming talk on campus by Holocaust denier David Irving . That such an event could take place at CU was profoundly disturbing. “I have plenty of rolls of film in my dorm of me in front of various ovens and human ashes, piles of hair, and piles of combs and things you don’t even want to discuss. And you mean to tell me there’s a man coming to my campus to speak. To brainwash people that the Holocaust never existed?”
In tears, she called her mother. “Mom said ‘This is the real world. You’re going to come across this at any campus,'” Aragan says. “I had never come into contact with anti-Semitism, aside from being in Poland. It kind of opened my eyes and showed me how much I had grown up. Because I’m not in my private Jewish high school, and I’m not in Poland or Israel or anywhere.” […] Contact Camera Staff Writer Cindy Sutter at (303) 473-1335 or [email protected] .