Article: Lives Not Yet Lived: Reacting to the death of our children in Israel.

Samuel Heilman
The Jewish Week
04-28-1995
Lives Not Yet Lived: Reacting to the death of our children in Israel..

The tragic murder of seven people in the recent bus bombing in Gaza, like all the other terrorist attacks against Jewish targets over the years, strikes not just at the individuals killed and their families. It wounds all of us.

The pain is especially acute because so many of the victims were young. When children are cut down by death we are especially troubled, for, as psychologist Erich Fromm put it, "To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable." In the ceaseless destruction of life that has been going on for almost 50 years in ...

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