Every Friday, as some of you may know, my Hebrew teacher would give ma a minute to speak about any issue I wanted. This week I was talking about Why be Jewish and I called the Reformed movement the "deformed movement." My teacher went ballistic and stopped me from finishing. She said I "crossed a line", yet my question for her will be on Monday, "Did not the other students cross a line when they compared me to Hitler? Did not they cross a line when they called me racist and fascist?" I have to wonder where she draws her lines. It seems any cheap shot against me is allowed, but I am not allowed to use any. Regardless she has banned me from speaking on Fridays anymore.
I know what I say next will sound cruel and I know it is wrong, but I can't help it. I must say that when my teacher and those students face annihilation in America, I'll protest for them the same way they protested for my Great granparents and my family during WWII. Peaceful demonstrations, nothing extreme. They said that chaining one's self to the white house gates on behalf of Jews was extremism, so indeed I will be sure not to do anything "extreme" on their behalf. Also, if I am at all involved in the Government in Israel when the Holocaust in America does occur, I will make sure that their visas are the last ones processed. I know it's cruel. I know it's malicious. I know it's unjust and shows a lack of Ahavat Yisrael, but this is how I feel. Maybe they'll be lucky that when the time comes my anger will have subsided and maybe they won't be.