philadelphia jewish museum (1)

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Survivor's Guilt

The second floor of the museum, “Choices and Challenges of Freedom, 1945-Today,” is where we boomers come in. My father had served in the military during World War II, but he never got over the survivor's guilt from knowing 6,000,000 European Jews died in concentration camps. He was a masterful cook of treyf like mussels marinara and paella, but illogical though this may sound, my pork-eating, atheist father was also a strong supporter of Israel. 

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