Exodus
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When I was a child, I was proud and grateful to be an American.
I participated in Girl Scouts, took piano lessons and ballet yet despite it all I always saw myself as different from the average student in my Brooklyn, NY elementary school.
My parents had accents.
English was their third or fourth language.
And then there were their nationalities.
A few years before I had been born my then 19 year old Romanian mother had been in Auschwitz and my 23 year old Polish father had been a chauffeur for the First Secretary of the Communist party of Tajjikistan, Dmitrii Protopovov. (I didn’t find out about my dad’s wartime experiences until my own children were in college. He apparently didn’t want me raising my hand in Show & Tell during the height of the Cold War and saying that he had been in the Soviet Union.)
So, I was extra-patriotic. I stood tall during the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, sang the National Anthem with fervor.
Behind it all was the knowledge that I was a member of another community, the Jewish community, but my two worlds never collided would never collide.
Or so I thought.
Overt anti-Semitism is now the rule among “progressives” who admit that they are using the mainstream Democratic party to achieve power.
Sounds harsh and fantastic? Impossible?
It is happening.
We are living in a world where elected Democrats with the exception of Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), are saying “We have a big tent” and are welcoming anarchists, communists, fascists and socialists. What these mainstream Democrats don’t realize is that the goal of the usurpers, mostly foreign born, and their followers, 85% percent of whom are white, will eventually push them right out of the tent.
They are already doing it.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Repr. Hakeem Jessfries (D-NY) have heard “It’s time for a change”, not whispered, but screamed.
How did this happen?
The answers are obvious.
1. Lack of civics training in schools
2. Politically skewered study of American history.
3. Destruction of the nuclear family. This includes the derogation of the role of the father, of child raising in general and off-loading of parental responsibility to schools.
4. Danger of social media.
5. Unpunished crime, drugs, violence
7. Intolerance and silencing of difference points of view.
8. Election interference.
The list goes on.
My mother so valued the rights she had in America, she used to wear a suit to vote.
No one had asked her opinion in Romania. Here, she was part of the electorate and her voice counted.
My father worked as a civilian driver for the U.S. Army and UNRAA after the war. He wore fatigues. I believed he was IN the military. The thought gave me pride.
This year is the 250th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
It was an incredible document, deeply rooted in Enlightenment thought and Judeo-Christian values.
It has, like the flag in Francis Scott Key’s poem, later set to music in the National Anthem, withstood bombardment.
Happy Birthday, America!
Thank you for all the opportunities for career, education and health I and many others received as part of this great nation.
In 1776 our enemy was King George II and the redcoats.
Today, it is foriegn-born interests and the kefiyyah-wearing people they fund,
Will Jewish life in American be like the the lives of the Jews expelled from Arab lands?
If there is one thing Jews should have learned it it “It CAN happen here.”
It happened in Mitzrayim when “A new king arose over Egypt, who did not know about Joseph.” Exodus 1:8.
It happened in nearly every European city for over 1,000 years.
It happened during the Holocaust.
What dffers today is that we have Israel, a shining sliver of land on Mediterrean, promised to us by Hashem, to which we held onto even when it seemed to be slipping from our fingers.
Israel was the dream and hope of Jews all over in the world for milennia.
Israel was on my paternal great-grandfather’s lips as he raised his hand to cover his eyes and recite the Shema in the Frampol, Poland cemetery where he was killed.
It is being realized by my child having made aliya, who, together with her intended, will, BH, raise Jewish children in Israel.
