Word: massena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporting the Massena episode (which, by the way, you placed in the department of Religion as if ritual murder really had any connection with the Jewish religion) you say: "Long after the death of Moses Jews celebrated their Passover with the death of lambs, and in the Ghettos of walled cities, there were bloody marks upon the doors...
Three weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 17), Jews celebrated Yom Kippur, their Day of Atonement. On the eve of Yom Kippur, in Massena. N. Y., Barbara Griffith, 4, disappeared. Her parents asked policemen to find her. At about this time, someone remembered the legend of the sacrifice. A State police trooper named H. M. McCann summoned Rabbi Berel Brennglass to headquarters where, in accordance with an arrangement previously made with Mayor W. Gilbert Hawes, he questioned the rabbi as follows...
This dispersion did not end the incident. Famed Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise heard of it and complained to Major John A. Warner, Superintendent of New York State Police. Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee, called "the most distinguished Jew in America," sent to Mayor Hawes of Massena a long message in which he demanded an apology. Excerpts from the message...
...What has occurred does not merely affect the Jews of Massena, whose very lives were placed in jeopardy, but the entire Jewish population of this country and of the world. ... I deem it my duty to demand of you an immediate and public written apology to the Jewish people for the terrible wrong which you have inflicted upon them...
This message brought an answer from the Mayor of Massena. Excerpts...