In an extraordinary and eerie coincidence, four significant events that still impact us today took place in Germany on either Nov. 9 or 10: the birth of Martin Luther; an early but ill-fated coup by Adolf Hitler; Kristallnacht, or the night of broken glass; and the end of the Berlin Wall.
(Rabbi Rudin, the American Jewish Committee’s senior interreligious adviser, is the author of “The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right’s Plans for the Rest of Us.”)
