At the Jewish Outreach Institute, we recognize that our primary focus of Jewish intermarriage is actually a result of a much larger phenomenon, the increased intermingling of people in the U.S. and elsewhere over the past decades thanks to new technologies, mobility, and greater acceptance—even celebration—of cultural differences. Therefore, we are always interested and sometimes challenged when we see the merging or blending of the Jewish tradition with other people’s stories. One area where that blending occurs with thankfully little controversy, however, is in the art world. That is particularly the case of a graphic novel that recently came to my attention called, “Never Forget, Never Forgive.”

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