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This is the first post in my new series “Props to the Pops,” which links to some of the many articles that my father (see right)writes which I actually read find particularly interesting. This article, “In the Diaspora: Hallowing helplessness,” from The Jerusalem Post, talks about the Yom HaShoah speaker at my school (who also spoke that nights to parents), and how he conveys the Israeli idea of Yom HaShoah instead of the American one. Here’s how it begins:

When Michael Weinstein introduced his father, Edi, as the speaker for a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at a Manhattan day school, he used an unexpected adjective. The word was “optimistic,” and it is a quality of character one hardly associates with a Holocaust survivor.