Who has written these statistics?
Do you really believe that local Orthodox churches participated in the prosecution against Jews in Russia? I have never heard such a think and I do not think that all Jews will agree with this. To claim that the authorities of Tsarist Russia had anti Semitic laws or propaganda is not normal and in struggle with historical facts.
Anti Semitism = to prosecute Jews because of their ethnicity or religion.
Do you really think that the authorities of Tsarist Russia went door to door to clloect Jewish people in order to prosecute them? Thats rudiculous man!
No not ridiculous, absolutely did happen, read your history book!
How would you know are you a Jew? Just like I don't know what it means to be a Serb, you do not know what it means to be a Jew. How do you know how we were treated in Russia? While your people were living peaceful life in your slavic nations, attending church, socializing in your cities, we were having our villages burned, women raped, even children butchered in the name of the Orthodox church of Russsia. Did you think any Jews were allowed in Moscow or Kiev? I bet there was plenty of Serbas allowed to live there. We were the "Christ Killers"! What other institution but a church could coin the term, "Christ Killer". I don't think you know so much of Jewish history in Eastern EUrope, it shows by the some of your ignorant statments you make about us. YOu know plenty about Serbian history and suffering of Serbs in Europe; that I definately see. Do the Jews on the website a favor and stop bashing us when we question intentions of Serbs and be open to conversation like the other Serbians I have talked to who were more respectable and gave me better answer than your insults of me. I am educating myself about Serbia, so stop attacking me when I first came onto the site and new very little of your people. Go do us Jews a favor and study some about the oppression of our people in eastern Europe. Really, I don't know why people here don't care when you say such statements that us Jews never suffered at the hands of Orthodox Christians or in Eastern Europe is outrageous. You openly criticize Catholics for their atrocities they committed against Jews, you think Orthodox did not participate? We were brutalized! Wake up Dalamacija and smell the truth. Why was Serbia bombed? Because people were profoundly ignorant; rejecting to hear the truth of the situation. Many would cry day and night for the Albanians, yet refuse to look at the history and suffering of Serbs. You are doing the same to us Jews by denying our history in favor of your religious comrades.
Come brother,
If I went to a synagogue wearing a big Orthodox cross.... What kind of impression would I leave? What will they say to me. They will also say something about the sign of my religion. And I will give them right. You must know where you can wear those sings and where not...
Good point, yet Russia has some very large churches in Israel with its giant crosses reaching out to heaven. Many Orthodox prietss go to Western Wall with crosses exposed. I suppose we are reather accepting, maybe we shouldnot be. Nonetheless, the Star of David was a small necklace, not a giant huge star of David on my head. Nobody could see it. Its not like an Orthodox priest who has a giant cross hanging from his neck. However, since we ould respect him as a religious elder and if he walked into a synaogogue to observe, I do no think they would force him to hide his religious emblems. Then again, it depends on synagogue to synagogue. You misunderstand me anyhow. They did not want me to hide my Star for the church, NO! They said my Star of David was evil and that I should permanently remove it! I would have no problem removing it for a church meeting if it bothered them there. But they were ridiculing my faith, which I hate! If a Christian wears a cross and it brings him closer to G-d, I will not insult him and call him a wood worshipper or an idol worshipper. SOme Jews do that and we should stop them for their bad behavior.
Use your mind brother.... In Churches you have people and people sometimes say ridiculous thinks... Do not take it to personally!
Why were you linking these insults to the Orthodox teachings?
Do I complain about the insults which were addressed to some Orthodox priests in Jerusalem by certain people over there?
Do you hear me complain about that?
Of course not... Where you have people you always have trouble!
Well, sad to say many Orthodox priests have been known to also send insults out to the Jewish people even in their own land! Yes, I reject any hatred towards any people of faith. However, Russian priests live very nicely with huge amount of land that is suppose to be for Jews. Many of them openly welcome Palestinainas and have voiced for Palestinain rights. They even threw out the head of the Greek Orthodox Church from Israel. He rebuilt his church in West Bank with his new "Palestinia-n" friends. He was calling for the destruction of Israel and claim it was Arab land, Jews did not belong there. That was real nice that Israel help fund his church and gave him a nice place to stay and look how he repaid us.
Tsarist Russia was an Orthodox state whose foundation was based on Orthodox laws.
In Orthodoxy many Jewish prophets of the oldd Testament were ethnically Jews.
To say that Orthodoxy hates Jews or has a problem with Jews is rediculous and wrong.
Yes, in Bible, Jews are looked on highly. Well, that is because Jews (or people of Hebraic ancestory) wrote most of the bible, including New T-estament. However, as you know Orthodox churches are not all same. Like Catholics, many believe the bible is just one book of many. Many Christians in Russia did not care about that the all the prophets were Israelites, even Jesus was born from the tribe of Judah. They just focused on the poorly translated text that spoke of a group of rogue Pharisees persecuted and murdered their G-d. They don't read the bible the way it is written. Even Hitler made some claim about Jesus being a Celtic who was oppresed by evil Jewish slave masters. I know what is written in the bible, that doesn't mean people interpret it that way. The Catholics in Spain read the bible too and acknowledge all the prophets were ethnic Israelites. Yet, it did not stop the Spanish INquisition. Nor did it stop the slaughter of the JEws in the Crusades, who were viewed as heretics and, of course, "Christ Killers". Hate to break the news, but many "FALSE" CHristians were responsible for death of millions of Jews.
Yes you did call me a nazi, go read above. You got some nerve too.. This is a Jewish website (at least I think it is) and I know you think its a Serbian website, but you forget this website main cause is to help save Jews and defend their own people, not Serbians. You do have Serbian websites. I bet if I as a Jew, would go onto a Serbian site and say some of the things about Serbs you say to me, I would not last long. Once again, many of us Jews are self-hating and we spoil our allies. Many of our allies take advantage of us, as you can see. A good example, George Wahabi Bush, our old ally, and now the one who is preaching for us to give Golan to the Syrian Nazis.
YOu attack me from what I said in the past. Perhaps I should attack some of your statements defending the Tzar, Chavez, Castro, Ahmedinejab, and, of course, Putin. I do not like scuffling with you.. However, if I see pictures of neo-nazis do nazi salute with a serbian flag hanging from your Orthodox churches, your damn right I will post it on a Jewish website and question you about it. DOn't behave like a fascist and try to force me to silence myself. Please, don't go making orders about who is qualified to be concerned about nazism in Serbia and who is not. I am a Jew, I am just as qualified as you to be concerned about this and you should remember that. I don't see neo-nazis calling for the death of the Serbs, but I see neo-nazis calling for the death of the Jews and most of the world's anger is against Jews, not Serbians. YOu have never been the world's scapegoat, my people have. Also, these neo-nazi, blood and honor people, are trying to promote a teaching that Jews were responsible for the bombings in Kosovo. I will ask Serbs to speak about it and if you refuse you are just breeding the censorship and ignorance which is how anti-semitism spawns and proliferates amongst the European people. If Jews are waving Anti-Serbian flags or salutes in Yerushalayim, I will post it on here too!
DO ME A FAVOR: Can you visit this website:
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.com I WILL SEND YOU THIS LINK AS A PERSONAL MESSAGE. I would like you to read this website of the history of our people. Please study it. Before you make any more rebukes against me and painting a fantasy picture of the nice life us Jews had in Eastern Europe; go read the facts, which your russian-inspired history books will not tell you. Hear the history of the Jews, from a Jewish perspective.
The History of Jews in Russia and relation of Church and Government. (Half of my Heritage)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/russia.htmlThe History of Jews in Ukraine (Half of my Heritage)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/ukraine.htmlThe History of Jews in Belarus
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Belarus.htmlThe History of Jews in Moldova
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/moldova.htmlThe History of Jews in Romania
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/romania.htmlThe History of Jews in Bulgaria
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/bulgaria.htmlThe History of Jews in Greece
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Greece.htmlGenocide of Jews and Serbians in Kosovo, by Muslim Albanians and their Nazi Allies
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Kosovo.html