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Richieville News Service - BOYNTON BEACH, FL

  In retirement communities and delicatessens across this state, Jewish voters expressed grave reservations over the news of Israel's peace talks with Syria. The outpouring of criticism  raised the possibility that Israel might be losing the support of one of its core constituencies, Jews.

 "They're talking to terrorists!" said Bernie Kupferstein, 74, as he leaned on his shuffleboard stick at the Aberdeen Country Club. "I can't believe Israel would betray Israel like that."

Last October 10, 2007,on CNBC's The Big Idea, conservative writer Ann Coulter proclaimed that Jews need to be "perfected" and that they would be better off being Christian.

He said... "You are Perfect Already" by egg theorem

Teach Your Children Well... An essay by Lorcan Ortway...

There is a museum downtown, in New York City, which preserves a board game produced in Germany during the time when that nation was under the sway of nazism. In this game, Jews are rounded up, and neighborhoods cleared of Jews. Looking at this children's game, leaves one feeling empty and cold. I had the same feeling reading about this a game, about to go on the market this Twelfth month, some call December, to be given as a present on the day some call "Christmas."

My friend Jon Hutson, wrote to tell me that Wal Mart is about to sell a game, " Left Behind: Eternal Forces" In this game, the object is to kill those who have not converted to Christianity, while the on screen characters shout "Praise the Lord..."

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This is not my America and I don't think it's yours either. Are YOU going to be the one to let that stand IF true?

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller

When I was a child attending Hebrew School in New York in the late 1960's, in addition to learning to read and write Hebrew, studying Jewish heritage and spiritual practices, and practicing the melodies of prayer in the Torah, we also learned a lot about the Holocaust.

Through films, photographs, and stories, each of us had etched in our minds the horrors of people being rounded up, taken away from their homes, brutalized, tortured, raped and killed.

Because our elders wanted us to remember, and never let things like that happen again, to ANYONE, despite the trauma that it might cause to children so young, we were exposed to atrocities that no child should even have to imagine.

That's why, when I read the newspapers this week, my skin crawls and my blood boils, and I wonder how we can sit idly by.