A new identity

The continuing furore over Jon Venables leads to an interesting article in the Jewish Chronicle about a similar murder committed against a 2 year old girl, Sharona Joseph that did not recieve the media attention that the murder of James Bulger achieved.

The final paragraph makes the telling point:

Perhaps this debate resonates for Jews because we have so many times in history had to survive terrible loss within our families. We are, as a people, experts in hiding from mobs who want to kill us, moving to new places, taking new names and absorbing huge shifts in our identities. Perhaps this Shabbat we can take time to remember Sharona Joseph, one of our lost children, remembered by her family in many acts of charity and kindness.