The 2 Minute Siren on Holocaust Remembrance Day

How can I describe the feeling of standing on a street in silence with hundreds of “strangers” at attention listening to the 2 minutes of sirens blaring throughout the city. All cars and buses emptied as the pedestrians stand along side them contemplating those dreadful events.

I was overwhelmed by the solidarity of the moment. Then, like magic, as with the parting of the sea, it closes a chapter on the unimaginable hatred and everyone goes back to LIVING their lives as individuals and as a people free in the Jewish State.

While there is much to be done here to make life for all our citizens fair and equal we nevertheless strive to work toward that goal to express ourselves freely regardless if it might not be all that popular.

This is one of the driving forces that keep us viable and striving for peace. In spite of hostility and the need to find a partner for peace we continue as a nation living and doing our part in the social sciences, arts and entertainment, agriculture, technology, and our will to survive that contributes to the best of what humanity has to offer. I pray for peace and equitable settlement of our work a head of us.