RABBI WEIN ON THE FUTURE

Having just been privileged to attend and participate at the wedding of a granddaughter in the United States my thoughts naturally wander to contemplate the future of my generations. One thing is certain – they will live in a far different world than the one that I lived in. When I grew up in Chicago in the early-middle part of the last century, European Jewry was being destroyed and Orthodox Judaism seemed doomed to extinction. The Soviet Union and Communism generally seemed to be the wave of the future and the small Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel were threatened by annihilation from the anti-Jewish policies of the British rulers of the country. And, bloody Arab violence against the Jews living there continued.