Brief introduction, as none is needed. Lights dimmed. For the first time, the former chief rabbi of Israel speaks in Denver. BMH-BJ. Aug. 13. Silence. . From the first moment, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau was riveting. I erred in equating riveting with retention. Just the opposite. Rabbi Lau’s astonishing story as perhaps the youngest survivor of Buchenwald became like body blows, and I could not fully absorb them before he was already on to the next phrase, the next idea, the next incident. I could not simultaneously keep up emotionally and mentally and record all of his story. It would have made no difference had I brought a pen to take notes. Rabbi Lau — in 1945, the eight-year-old Israel Meir Lau who had never […]
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