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Alan Goldberg
Joachim Prinz, rabbi of Berlin's Jewish community under Hitler, spoke during the March on Washington. "The most important thing that I learned under those tragic circumstances was that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem are silence." Prinz was not speaking about the Holocaust that day but about a nation's indifference to the plight of the black community. The Days of Remembrance are our opportunity to reaffirm our moral responsibility to reject silence and speak against acts of discrimination and dehumanization wherever they are found.
Alan Goldberg is Professor Emeritus in Syracuse University's School of Education. The former chair of Counseling and Human Services, he now directs programs in Holocaust and genocide education and the Spector/Warren Fellowship for Future Educators.