Political spin is not a sound replacement for national pride.

Translated literally from the English as the Night of Broken Glass, Kristallnacht was a pogrom  in Nazi Germany in November 9-10. That night, 82 Jews were murdered and 25,000–30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camps.

Olmert, Livni and Peres should listen up and learn from an event that happened this Friday in Berlin.

I got this item – courtesy of Joseph Bernadette.

The Rykestrasse synagogue in Berlin was torched  on Kristallnacht. This past Friday  saw rabbis bringing the Torah to the synagogue, in a ceremony witnessed by political leaders and Holocaust survivors from around the world. The synagogue, with a capacity to seat 1,200, has been described as one of the jewels of Germany’s Jewish community. Rabbi Chaim Roswaski, who presided at the ceremony ,described the reconstruction as “a miracle.” The re-opening comes at the start of a Jewish culture Festival this week in Berlin.

Who would have thunk?