Ein Karem, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 Here in Jerusalem we are saddened by the response to Trump’s announcement of having Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Even more we are distressed by the expressions of hatred towards Jewish people around the world. Hostility towards Jews is not only in the history of the Nazi regime; it is a history of nearly 2000 or more years in which education has played an important part. Violence begins in the mind and the heart. Before the gas chambers of Auschwitz there were the harsh words of Hitler and before that, there where homilies and theological writings and even expressions of hostility in the NT towards the Jewish people. (“The language anti-Semitism” by Monika Schwarz-Friesel). Rabbi Sacks spoke on Friday 8th December 2017, in a debate in the House of Lords on Education, on the question of why Moses in his last speech didn’t talk about the long walk to freedom. Why did Moses not speak about the land flowing with milk and honey? Instead, repeatedly, he turned to the …