I walked by, this morning, Park Avenue Synagogue which, of course, is on Madison Avenue. Inscrutable are the ways of synagogue presidents. This I learned over 54 years in the Rabbinate. Barricades they have surrounding this House of Worship, barricades against terrorist car bombs, and so also they have barricades at Sharay Tefila, Emanu-El and most of the other large synagogues in New York, though my shul, Beth Yuiz Miwom Annow, being on a secluded side street had no such concrete protection. Oy, I don't understand. Even at the heights, or the depths, of Nazi evil, barricades we didn't need in front of our Temples. Yet, now they are there.
They are there. But where, I ask, are my fellow rabbis? Where is there outrage? Where is Bloomberg, Clinton, Schumer, Maloney, Bush and other political leaders? Where are decent people who may, it is to be hoped, decry this persecution. No other religion, not even Monks in Burma have to worship behind barricades. But Jews, in America, we must. And who is protesting?
Dirty anti-Semites.
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