Following Rosenbaum’s murder, rioting continued against Jews for four days in Crown Heights, while many complained that the response by police and Mayor David Dinkins was inadequate.” NYT – a usual sampling of NY Times’ warped, fake news – not inadequate – nonexistent, Rabbi!!! Were you marching to get justice for the Jews? Prosecute Mayor Dinkins? Did you march against mayor De Blasio when he singled out the Jews as the ones not practicing social distancing? SINGLED OUT THE JEWS!!! The crowd, consisting of young black men, had been intent on seeking revenge against Jewish people for the death of seven-year-old Gavin Cato, who had been struck by a car driven by a Hasidic Jew …(totally accidentally) …three hours earlier. Would you still be sympathetic to the mob? Would you still say their rage was justified? Would you #justiceforthejews?Īugust of 1991 – “Yankel Rosenbaum, a visiting student from Australia, is stabbed to death by an angry mob in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, NY. What would have taken place if that cop just happened to be a Jew? You know and I know and every Jew knows that after satisfying themselves with the booty they would have tried to burn down synagogues and yeshivas and would have gone after the easiest targets – the Haredim. Our brethren! The prey!! Kol Israel arevim zeh bezeh. The moral indignation should be in our behalf, in behalf of the victims – and there were so, so many. They murdered cops, they burned police stations, they smashed police cars with policemen in them, they threw Molotov cocktails, rocks, frozen bottles of water and tried to burn down a place of worship and yet, Rabbi, you got past all that claiming their cause was just!!! Rabbi, we are the victims here. They were beating innocent people with 2 by 4’s over and over and over. There are pictures of them coming out of stores carrying booty, running, laughing. The rioters were expressing their attraction for sneakers, Rolexes, TV’s, in fact whatever was in their line of vision. I saw a mob seize an opportunity to loot. Unlike you, Rabbi, when watching the riots, the murders, the shattering of glass, I was reminded of Kristalnakht. I am totally loyal to the state of Israel and its survival. I am proud of my heritage and of Jewish values. It is my, and every Jew’s obligation to support a local Jewish place of worship. I am not a particularly religious person, Rabbi, but I go to shul because I am a Jew. We invite you to join Rabbi Bazeley at the demonstration. Due to COVID-19 regulations, participants will travel down Woodbridge Avenue in cars with signs for George Floyd and other victims of police brutality. The demonstration will go from the Edison entrance to Highland Park on Woodbridge Avenue all the way to the Albany Street Bridge. On Tuesday, June 2nd, at 6:30pm, Rabbi Bazeley will be joining in a demonstration organized by Highland Park community activist Ashton Burrell calling for the prosecution of all officers involved in the death of George Floyd it’s being called: #JusticeforFloyd. Otherwise, this will just continue to happen again and again. We have to acknowledge it, we have to talk about it, and we have to hear some harsh truths. We, your clergy, don’t know what the course of treatment will need to be, but ignoring these incidents and events will not make it go away. If ignored, it will suffocate and kill all that it contaminates. We need to shine a light on it and acknowledge it for what it is – malignant. We need to figure out a way of removing it and finding the courage to act. Xenophobia is a cancer within our society.

We are a people of a tapestry of color and “kol Yisrael aravim zeh bazeh, all Israel is responsible for one another.” We should feel this anger because being a Jew knows no limitation on the color of your skin.

We should be feeling this anger because as Jews we have long felt the pain of government-sanctioned violence and discrimination. We believe this to be righteous anger and indignation and we, as Jews, should be feeling this anger too. And while we don’t believe that the destruction of property is justified, we do believe the anger that is being displayed is. The burning of precincts and public and private property is the outward manifestation of the pain, fear, and anger that many of us feel in our hearts and souls over what has occurred. As if these two tragedies weren’t enough, in the days after George Floyd’s death, our country seems to have been set on fire. We have marked both the reaching of 100,000+ deaths due to COVID-19, and yet another senseless and avoidable death due to rampant racism in our country. This past week has been a painful one for our country. I am not a member of the flock but the newsletter was forwarded to me by a congregant. This is the newsletter that Rabbi Bazeley of Anshe Emeth, New Brunswick, NJ sent to his congregants.

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