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92NY’s Goldman Center for Children and Family provides an exceptional array of programs designed to support children at every stage of their development.
at The 92nd Street Y, New York. Supported by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
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Oct 06, 1988
“This story, beautiful and disturbing -- is about children, Jewish children.” How Jewish children are used, abused, and forced to assimilate. Yet Daniel and his friends (like Joseph before them) are able to resist. Daniel does so by what seemingly are prophetic powers. But the Talmud does not list him among the prophets. His wisdom takes him far yet his not being a prophet offers a clue to his lack of wholeness. And his lack of wholeness marks him as a diaspora Jew. Nevertheless, the Midrash ranks his defense of the Jewish people together with that of Moses. And to only Daniel and the Patriarch Jacob was the secret of the end times revealed. Jacob forgot it, Daniel kept it a secret. It cannot be deciphered. But we know that there is a secret and that knowledge helps us overcome banality and reject vulgarity.
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