via Lois Koenig
by PHYLLIS GOLDSTEIN
History shows we must not let the hate crimes of Brooklyn fester and grow
Does history repeat itself? Residents in Midwood, a predominately Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, may have thought so on the morning of Nov. 11. They awoke to flashing red lights, billows of smoke and the sound of sirens. Vandals had set three cars on fire and spray-painted swastikas and antisemitic graffiti on sidewalks and benches just one day after the 73rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, when the Nazis ransacked thousands of Jewish homes and businesses in Germany, torched synagogues and shipped 30,000 Jews to concentration camps. The incident was followed by more graffiti in the same neighborhood only five days later.
a12iggymom's Blog 