Are you surprised that Yad Vashem is resisting that request?
Golinkin: I have great respect for Yad Vashem. I have visited it many times, and the work it does is incredibly important. But its position on the Bergson Group just doesn’t make sense. Yad Vashem claims that it focuses on the perpetrators and the victims, not the response of America or the other Allies. But anyone who has visited the Yad Vashem museum knows they do have panels in their exhibit about the voyage of the S.S. St. Louis, the failure to bomb Auschwitz, and other aspects of America’s response. If you’re going to talk about America’s abandonment of the Jews, you should also talk about those in America who protested and had an impact. I hope that the new chairman of Yad Vashem, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, who is a survivor, will take a closer look at this issue. Medoff: The 400 rabbis who marched in 1943 were all Orthodox. Yet many of the 400 rabbis who signed that recent petition were Reform, Conservative or Reconstructionist. Is this a sign that Jews are more unified today than
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