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...certainly not a valid comparison, and as a Jew I say that with my whole heart," he said. "Comparing Stephen Mitby to a man who murdered six million people is hardly valid...
...mention of the Holocaust ("Not again!") as a bore and a kind of chronic blackmail, a moral collection racket. In an entirely different way, there are also Israelis who object to Holocaust remembering, because they think it a sign of weakness or at least of unproductive obsession. Some Jews who favor pressing the case against Swiss banks recall a bitter joke: in czarist Russia, two Jews are lined up against the wall to be shot; the captain of the firing squad asks if there is a last request. One Jew replies, "I believe I am entitled to a last cigarette...
CONVICTED. LEMRICK NELSON JR., 21, and CHARLES PRICE, 43, of civil rights violations in the 1991 death of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic Jew who was attacked by a band of black men after a car accident in which a Hasidic motorist struck and killed a black child; in New York City. Nelson was acquitted of murder in a 1992 state trial, but Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a federal investigation...
...writing in response to the editorial piece by Justin Danilewitz concerning Crown Heights and its implications for the future political alignment of Jews in America. Danilewitz begins his argument by recounting an incident--the murder of 47 Jews in Kishinev, Russia--which was part of a very real and very long history of anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe. In introducing the example of the Russian pogrom he attempts to link this reprehensible slaughter of Jews to the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As a result of what he characterizes as black malice toward Jews, he calls...
This argument would be extremely compelling to me if I were an American Jew--especially given the centuries-old historical pattern of Jewish oppression. Indeed, this argument is intriguing to me as a young black man for many of the same reasons. However, what Danilewitz's argument fails to fully comprehend--and what many in America seem not to want to talk about--is the very real history that also shapes how blacks in America react to various issues and experiences (such the O.J. Simpson trials, the Million Man March, and the Crown Heights incident). Danilewitz's own example...