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MEMORY IN ACTION: EMBRACING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE
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    • Hollywood's 1st Synagogue
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    • The Survivors Rebuild
    • Escape from the Gulag
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for the past decades, jews around the world feel increasingl

Since the horrors of October 7, the historic Jewish existential anxiety has only gotten worse.

Here is a look at Jews in Germany 75 years ago, trying then to find a footing in the post-Holocaust Germany. This is the text of the Farewell Address to Jews and Germans by the State Rabbi of Hesse, explaining why he must leave. t has implications for a Germany today, in which Jews suddenly feel threatened by both left and right extremes.

http://www.courageofspirit.com/2025/03/i-leave-this-country-with-bitterness.html

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I leave this country with bitterness, but the window can not be shut  upon any nation.” Regarding the Farewell Address of Rabbi Dr. Wilhelm  Weinberg, 1901-1976, in Frankfurt/Main, November 11, 1951 

   

This Shabbat is Shushan Purim. It is the Yarhzeit of my father, Rabbi  Dr. William Weinberg, who led the community of survivors after the  Holocaust in DP Camps in Austria and then in the rebuilt Jewish  community of Frankfurt, Germany, and the environs. The reading from the  Prophets on this Shabbat is the direct theme of the speech that is  referenced below.

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Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg at the Bimah of the Westend Synagog. From the collection of Rabbi Norbert Wei


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