As part of an effort to put children at the centre of its cultural activities in 2008, the city of Liverpool is organizing a large number of events involving the young. One of these is an Anne Frank exhibition at Liverpool Cathedral, to include a life-size replica of Anne Frank's bedroom. The organizers hope that this might put across a message of tolerance to the thousands of children who are due to visit the exhibition - a good ambition, one might have thought. However:
Liverpool's Jewish schools have banned pupils from attending because the festival is being held in a Christian place of worship.Can that be true? If it is true, how utterly wrong-headed a decision. The exhibition is endorsed by the Anne Frank Museum. It's intended to teach a lesson against hatred. Isn't there, indeed, something positive in the fact of a memorial to this Jewish girl in a Christian place of worship?