Kesher Talk

Home-grown antisemitism. It's happening here, folks. The only reason it wasn't a synagogue or JCC in a part of the country with lots of Jews is because we've got security up the wazoo. I imagine a small museum in Indiana didn't feel they needed it.

And I believe the "Timothy McVeigh" graffiti was to throw law enforcement off the scent.

I didn't blog on the Turkish synagogue bombing because by the time I read the news larger-circulation blogs were all over it. And even though I have been seeing almost daily news of attacks on Jews, the Turkish bombing hit me deeper in the gut, and I couldn't write. Maybe it was because I heard the news in shul on Shabbat, when we were doing the mishebeirachs for those who are ill, and someone stood up and announced it. Maybe because some last straw had finally been laid.

Now this, only two days later.

I always wondered how Jews in the States felt during the 30s, hearing about the increasing violence and persecution of their fellows in Germany, trying to get the word out, arguing with their family, friends and neighbors who preferred to keep their heads in the sand, casting about for some way to head off the impending disaster. Now I know.

Meanwhile, Chirac sort of begins to get a clue.

posted by Judith @ 11/18/2003 11:56:33 PM