The Holocaust looms large in the consciousness of most Jews in Israel and America—but not, historically, for the ultra-Orthodox. A new museum in Brooklyn is a sign of a major shift in attitudes, as Cathryn J. Prince writes:
[N]ot only is [this] Brooklyn’s first Holocaust museum, it is the first in the U.S. to portray the Shoah from an Orthodox-Jewish perspective. The museum aims to change the ultra-Orthodox community’s approach to the subject. . . .
Julie Golding, the museum’s director of education . . . said she’s [also] encouraged by a change in recent years that has more people in the ultra-Orthodox community reaching out, eager to learn the history.
Read more on Times of Israel: http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-new-brooklyn-museum-an-orthodox-take-on-the-holocaust/