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CHAPTER 1 - Preparing
for Children
C: Educational Activities
33. Children as a Response to the Shoah
(One to one and a half hours)
The aim here is to examine the importance of children as an expression
of faith in a Jewish future. You should explain to the group the
idea was put forward by a number of thinkers over the years, to
the effect that one of the best responses that Jews can have to
the Holocaust is to have many children, thus denying Hitler and
Nazism a demographic victory over the Jews.
- Organize a formal debate to this effect around a motion, such
as:-
THIS GROUP BELIEVES THAT JEWS SHOULD SEE THEMSELVES
AS MORALLY OBLIGED TO BRING CHILDREN INTO THE WORLD AS A RESPONSE
TO THE HOLOCAUST.
- The debate should be run formally, with speakers for and
against the motion and a chairperson to moderate. At the end,
a vote should be taken and then a discussion should be run
out of role, in order to explore the idea of children as a
survival mechanism for the Jewish People.
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