I’m watching Love On The Spectrum (second season) on Netflix and loving it.
I have fallen for this non-scripted reality show.
I have fallen for this cast, a bunch of young Australians—who are on the autistic spectrum—as they go on a quest for dates and love.
I wonder, “Will the Israelis produce a similar program using young orthodox Jews who are on the autistic spectrum? Kinda like Shtisel, turned into a dating game for autistic people.
Holy smokes!
I just learned that the Israeli’s already have produced a similar program (seculars not orthodox) on autism called, On The Spectrum.
But from what I read, it’s not nearly as good as the Aussie show.
Of course, these young Aussies are high on the spectrum—so there’s a better chance that Cupid’s arrows will pierce the heart of a potential mate.
I’m hooked on this mating/dating game. So much so, that I can’t wait to see, who will find love and who will go home empty-handed”
I want to reach into my TV and grab the rejected and yell into their ears, “All is not lost. There’s still hope.”
So I sit and watch as one young man (Michael) who in his twenties visits his girlfriend’s (Heather) home for the first time to meet her parents and siblings.
The whole group sits around the dining room table making small talk.
They discuss where they have travelled to and where in the whole wide world they’d like to visit.
My ears perk up when Heather says, “I want to go to Poland to see Auschwitz and I want to visit the Anne Frank House.”
Remember this is a young, Christian, woman who was born and raised in Australia.
Remember that she’s three generations removed from the Shoah.
Yet, she announces her desire to see a concentration camp.
And she wants visit the room in the attic, where Anne Frank hid behind a bookcase from 1942 to 1944 in fear that Nazi’s would find her and her family and send them to a death camp.
She wants to see where Anne wrote her diary before she died in Bergen-Belsen.
She wants to see the concentration camp where Anne was interned.
I am not surprised that Heather’s parents quickly change the subject.
No surprise that Heather’s parents, nor Michael, ask any follow-up questions about: Why Poland? Why Auschwitz? Why Anne Frank?
But I still ponder, what I have just witnessed.
I recall the media and some social activist groups stressing how a large portion of the latest generation claims to have never heard of the Holocaust.
Therefore, the goal of these social activists is to put Holocaust educational programs in all schools.
An admirable goal.
But these stories make me pessimistic. For I fear, one day the word ‘Auschwitz’ will no longer have meaning.
I fear the loss of six million Jewish lives will be forgotten.
But now I think, “All is not lost. There’s still hope that in 100 years or longer the Holocaust will still be remembered.”
Thanks Heather, for reminding me that the “Never Again and the Never Forget” messages live in hearts and minds of people across this whole wide world.
Heather, you have made me realize:
All is not lost and there is still hope.
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Randy Jordan Sr.;
Kazi Imran Hossen;
Tony Eman Tony:
Anatoly Koramblyum;
Stacey HeidenI thought her wish to visit was awesome. I found myself wishing to go along with her. Your article pointing out that many young do not know this history was not even an occurrence to me as one who did have these stories in our history books and wrote reports on Anne. Wherever Heather learned of it, I was sorry to see her family shut the subject down too. You’re so correct though, there is much hope.
Anne Frank was on the spectrum?—Ali Reza
Lenny Ressler;
Dorot Memorialine;
Mike Zu;
Alice Stevens;
Robert Degnen;
Mary Dullinger;
Shalom Sibonongile;
Tovai Isreal Ohee;
Lina Tamang;
Timothy Scott;
I hope you are write. I see the hatred spewing and I am afraid..—Shula Neufeld
Sandy Stone Sabrin;
Lois Feinstein;
Judy Levine Altman;
Sarah Tuttle-Singer;
Isaac Ivan Edward Kleinschmidt;
Louis Lowy;
Sandra Shatkin;
Prince Worshim;
Isabel McDonald;
Thanks Mort. I hope you are right. Sometimes the loudest voices drown out the ones we so,seldom hear from.
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Efrraim Eckhaus;
Ther is always hope. Doris Coley Bartow:
Attie Salomon;
Connie Goodman-Milone;
James Sciullo;
Deborah C. Pollack;
Robert Lilith Sheehy;
Shalom Cohen;
Rebecca Gaston;
Joan Spence;
Lina Tamang After I read Anne’s Diary I feel so sad…she was a brilliant, blessed young girl.
Mitch Paul;
Mary Hietaharju Sela;
sehmmoum;
Isabella Wilson;
Marc Janoson;
I could not sleep and just read what you wrote. History should not be forgotten. I have 2 magazines about Anne Frank. I have to show you when we see each other again. Astonishing how cruel people can be.Anne wrote once.
I KEEP MY IDEALS, BECAUSE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING I STILL BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE REALLY GOOD AT HEART.— Marieanne Holmes
Sarah Lederstein;
Your follow-up is an honor for me 
The night 
Sober night with my surgeonAnd I wish there was a doctor to healMy friend stayed with meAnd longing for the night is overwhelmedAnd who is my night, I love youWhat do you answer my friend?
Concetta Falcone-Codding;
Perry Yaver;
Blake Laitner;
Bonnie Fabian-Cohen I’ve also been taken with Love on the Spectrum. I have watched the two seasons. These are such pure hearted individuals who are searching for love just like the rest of but minus the bullish*t. Great article.
