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Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
@Rich, deportation merely gets rid of the symptom, i.e. Jews were rarely if ever
made to feel at home in Poland, try as many did to assimilate as well as acculturate.
Deportation doesn't get rid of the problem, does it. The problem dates back to the
destruction of the First Temple, scattering them to all corners of the globe.
Would it have hurt gentiles to at least acknowledge or welcome their Jewish neighbors
into the fold, particularly with all the talk about "Christian charity"??
I was taught, especially at Passover time, to make room at the table for those less fortunate.
In that touching article of several years ago, "A cup for Elijah", the author writes of how he
purposely invited the least popular tenant in this apt. bldg. to participate in his family seder.
Rather than exclude, he decided to include and everyone found out that the fella wasn't
that bad at all. In fact, all he needed was a little nudge now and then to take part in life.
How sad that members of all faiths, including the Jewish, don't take this parable to heart.
