Rabbi Moshe Reiss
Letter to the Editor
I was out shopping Thursday morning for my Shabbat
food when
you published my article in Speaking Freely on anti-Americanism and
anti-Judaism [Anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism go hand in hand, Feb
18]. When
I returned home I saw it on my e-mail as well as a diatribe against
Jews. The
authors apparently responded instantly. [A link to] my website (with my
permission, of course) appeared at the end of the article. I reprint
the
penultimate paragraph: "Germany
did a piss poor job of liberating their people from the tyranny of
Jews. Let's
hope Islam does a better job." I do not reprint their name since I
choose
not to seek their permission to quote them. I can surmise from the
names they
were not Muslims. To receive such a "St Valentine's Massacre" Card
(an analogy to murdering criminal activity in the Unites States in the
1920s)
during the week when many memorialized the 60th year of the liberation
of Auschwitz is indeed remarkable.
Most Jews, at least
western Jews, including this author, had relatives whose bodies
(although not
necessarily souls) were turned to ash in this kingdom of hell. I
thought you
might care to share this with your other readers. May God forgive their
souls;
I cannot and will not.
Rabbi Moshe Reiss (Feb 18, '05)