Emotions Run High at Yom HaShoah Event – Forward.com

Emotions Run High at Yom HaShoah Event – Forward.com: "A PROFOUNDLY MOVING YOM HASHOAH EVENT AT TEMPLE EMANU-EL

“No politicians here! Get out! Get out!” shrieked the frail, white-haired Holocaust survivor as New York Senator Charles Schumer mounted the podium at the May 4 Annual Gathering of Remembrance/Holocaust — Yom HaShoah event at Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-El. Schumer waited, as did the hundreds sitting silently in the pews, as attempts to calm him failed. How can you evict a survivor for whom some memory triggered an emotional crisis?



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History always gets re-written: This was not how it was, more explanation soon to come.