11/29/2008
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The Jewlicious blog offers a good reason to say that "today, we are all Chabadniks":
"Sure, we’ve all poked fun at these guys. I mean they are Hassidic Jews after all, with their funny hats and beards, and their odd ideas about the Messiah. We’d take advantage of their hospitality and kindness while always asserting “I am not a Chabadnik.”
But all that’s changed now. Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg were targeted solely because they were Jewish. Had any of us been in Mumbai the day of the attack, we too would have been similarly targeted by mere dint of our religious affiliation. It wouldn’t have mattered in the least to the cowardly terrorists if we were atheist Jews, or cultural Jews, or left wing peacenick Jews, or secular, LWMO, Reform, Conservative or Reconstructionist. If they called out for Jews and you had the balls to raise your hand, they wouldn’t have asked if your Mom was Jewish or if the Rabbi that performed your conversion was on the approved list of Rabbis put out by the Rabbinate in Israel. They would have targeted you without further question."
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The attack on Bombay was horrifying, and all the worse for the ugly anti-Semitism of the attack on the Chabad house. The logic of the terrorists - to separate the people of India from the world -- led them to kill and maime at the hotels, at the train station, etc.
The attack on the Chabad house was out of pure hate, a special loathing of Jews separate from all other goals.
Posted by: tdaxp | 11/29/2008
Indeed. Those terrorists had nothing but pure hatred in their bodies and were intent on inflicting nothing but pain, suffering and murder on people who did not share their vicious beliefs. They wanted nothing more than to destroy good, hard-working people, like Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, people who were friendly and hospitable. I've met Jews who work with Chabad and, believe me, they really are helpful, friendly and hospitable.
My heart goes out to the families of all of the victims who were senselessly murdered in Bombay by those gutless cowards, and I hope the one surviving terrorist experiences nothing but torture, pain and suffering for the rest of his life. The kind that he and the rest of his band of gutless, brainless cowards put all these innocent people through.
Posted by: Horseheads | 12/06/2008
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