Charles Krauthammer: The Holocaust and American Jews - NY Daily News

When Sanders was asked about his Jewish identity, I was sure his answer would be some variation of Tikkun. On the stump, he plays the Old Testament prophet railing against the powerful and denouncing their treatment of the widow and the orphan. Yet Sanders gave an entirely different answer.

(3) The Holocaust. What a strange reply — yet it doesn’t seem so to us because it has become increasingly common for American Jews to locate their identity in the Holocaust.

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How could it not be? The Holocaust was such an enormous crime that everything else seems caught in its gravitational pull. We seem to be just outside the event horizon of its great black hole in history. Indeed, I'm not sure on which side of the horizon we are.