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...writing in response to the editorial piece by Justin Danilewitz concerning Crown Heights and its implications for the future political alignment of Jews in America. Danilewitz begins his argument by recounting an incident--the murder of 47 Jews in Kishinev, Russia--which was part of a very real and very long history of anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe. In introducing the example of the Russian pogrom he attempts to link this reprehensible slaughter of Jews to the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As a result of what he characterizes as black malice toward Jews, he calls...
...what Danilewitz's argument fails to fully comprehend--and what many in America seem not to want to talk about--is the very real history that also shapes how blacks in America react to various issues and experiences (such the O.J. Simpson trials, the Million Man March, and the Crown Heights incident). Danilewitz's own example of Jews being killed in Russia in response to an allegation of murdering two Christian children, for example, strikes me as analogous to the lynching of blacks in the South as a result of far less serious allegations (such as merely looking at white...
Danilewitz, however, falls into precisely this trap when he uses the Crown Heights incident to encourage Jews to reevaluate their relationship with African-Americans and "realign their traditionally liberal political allegiance...
...actions of a few individuals in Crown Heights should not reflect on all African-Americans and ruin an alliance that has had fruitful results in advancing social justice in America...
...think the incident in Crown Heights should not be used to increase animosities between races and religions, but rather, should encourage us to build such a community. --Matthew Mayers '97 Adina H. Rosenbaum '98 Co-Chairs, Progressive Jewish Alliance