When We Say 'Never Again'...

In These Times with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch: Ken Burns

History never repeats itself, but it rhymes...

When we say "never again," what we mean is that we know from experience what kind of things can happen — and we commit to forging a different outcome. "Never again" is the recognition that yes, it — hatred of Jews, genocide, mass delusion: the Holocaust — could happen here. And that recognition starts with self-reflection.

The best-known documentary filmmaker in the world, Ken Burns is a master storyteller. His 35 films on subjects such as baseball, jazz, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, the Statue of Liberty, the Civil War, and now the U.S. and the Holocaust are, at their heart, love letters to America. Ken sees our country not only for what it is, but what it could be — and so he lays bare our failures in the hope that next time, we'll do better...

I hope you'll tune in and join me for this intimate conversation wherever you get your podcasts.