Because the film A Real Grief

didn’t seem to get much of a showing, we almost missed it.  Maybe we just didn’t read the ads closely enough.  But we found out it was playing in Dizengoff Center this afternoon, so we dropped everything and went.  

The theater was almost empty, and the woman next to me kept turning on her phone, so I kept comparing the people on the holocaust trip on screen to the people in the audience. How has Israel been affected by the holocaust – really?  We have connected the events of October 7 with the holocaust so intimately we can’t really absorb the “merely psychological” reactions to the trauma.  Perhaps we really need to discuss some of this internationally.  The pain on both sides is really great.