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Gratuitous Holocaust comparisons are unhelpful. But, if your bar for evil is the Shoah, then everything else comes up short. Where does the Shoah comparison work? In the propensity for simply numbing out, of shutting down, of tuning out. As one of my friends said: “I guess this is how ordinary Germans felt.” No. Numbness is a luxury that we can ill afford. The role of the Jews in this crisis is to say: Once upon a time, we saw how the process started. It is not necessary-Please God!-that it wind up in the same place for us to be able to blow the shofar and to say that we promised to be silent-never again.

Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin