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Bug Juice, Tire Swing, and the Holocaust

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
June 30, 2011

If remembering past calamities that befell your people is crucial to being Jewish, then should we be so surpised that, as Dvora Meyers reports today in Tablet Magazine, this practice is even a part of Jewish summer camp? Well, if at your camp there is a replica of a cattle car built on train tracks made from German parts, then, yes, maybe you should be a little surprised.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.