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Lithos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 12:50 PM
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Hundreds help remove anti-Semitic graffiti
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- About 300 people of different faiths turned out to clean up a synagogue vandalized with swastikas and Nazi symbols on the eve of the Jewish holiday Purim.

So many people showed up Sunday at BMH-BJ Congregation, where vandalism had been discovered the day before, that people had to stand in line for a turn with a brush and a can of paint thinner.


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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/03/08/synagogue.graffiti.ap/index.html
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truthspeaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 12:52 PM
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1. Right on. Tolerance and compassion CAN beat hate, sometimes
Of course, hate will always win out in the end, but we can slow it down a little.
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 12:56 PM
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2. Good...
...I'm an old-skool Presbyterian WASP---my family's been in this country since the 1620s---who recently married a Jewish woman, and frankly, I'm ready to start kicking major ass about the anti-Semitism that's rearing its ugly head. Again.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 12:57 PM
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3. Tom Sawyer couldn't have asked for more
help whitewashing his fence then these fine people. Guess Colorado has some good people after all.
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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 01:01 PM
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4. Cool! If they'd had some petunias and trowels, all those people in line

could have planted those around while they waited for the paint thinner - building all clean, spring landscaping done, and lots of people with new friends :)
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Flagg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 01:29 PM
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5. a synagogue vandalized with swastikas and Nazi symbols on the eve of the J
I thought these sort of things only happened in "Old Europe" because of the French gene of anti-semtism

were we lied to ?
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Drifter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 01:31 PM
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6. I would love to be there with ...
a pad and pencil to do some polling.

What do you think we would find ?

Cheers
Drifter
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