Anyone who followed “War and Remembrance” knows...

Anyone who followed “War and Remembrance” knows the extent to which it was marred by wooden dialogue and plodding plot development. However, for one (mercifully commercial-free) hour on the May 10th segment, ABC made television and cinematic history. Never has the Jewish Holocaust been portrayed with such heartbreaking an mind-searing realism as in Natalie and Aaron’s fateful train ride to Auschwitz. Perhaps we need these visions of intense horror and depravity in order to be shocked into the kind of awareness that can forever banish the forces of fear, hatred and prejudice from within ourselves and from our world.

Rabbi Alan Green, Montebello