Dennis Prager’s Unique Take on the Cornell 7 Case

So on the anniversary of October 7th, the, uh, Jewish holiday Simchat Torah, which is a very happy day.

It means the happiness of the Torah, and traditionally Jews just go to synagogue or even in the streets and dance with Torah scrolls.

It's a very happy holiday.

It became a very unhappy day, a horrible day, the worst day since the Holocaust for Jews, October 7th, 2023.

So the butchery took place at the Nova Music Festival at the Gaza border.

And some people decided that they would make Simchat Torah this happy holiday with dancing and singing at the Nova site to show the world that the Jewish people are living and well and thriving, that in effect, you can't put us down.

It even included some people whose children were murdered or, or kidnapped or even raped.

However, at the same time, there were a fair number of parents whose children were murdered or, uh, uh, kidnapped or raped who said, "You can't do that.

You can't go to the actual site.

That's hallowed grounds." And they gave, they constantly gave the comparison, would you start dancing and singing at Auschwitz, the, the great infamous death camp of the, of the Nazis, where more than a million Jews were exterminated, to use their language? And I raise this issue solely to provoke those watching us to think, because very unlike me, I don't know what the right answer is.

I, I-- this is one example.

There aren't many of I equally see both sides as having legitimate arguments.

I don't know what is right.

I know what I would do.

Maybe that helps.

I was, uh...

I read that there was a large parking lot near the Nova site, and they could have used that for all the dancing and singing and prayers that they wanted, and I thought that that was a legitimate compromise.

But the people who wanted to do it wanted it, as the Israelis would say, davka, specifically, uh, at the Nova Festival site.

And it's maybe only time will tell what the right answer might be.

But how you honor the, uh, the victims of torture is a very difficult question.

That's, uh, something I just wanted to share with you.

I, I read literally every article that the Israeli press published on the issue and could not come up with an answer.