For this third week of Dec. 2019 - we do our commentary of the week about an interesting lecture by a Chief Rabbi of Poland - Michael Schudrich which he delivered on Dec. 7 - 2019 in the beautiful, spacious Squirrel Hill's temple - Beth Shalom.
The American born Chief Rabbi gave the audience of mixed ages (quite a large one) some interesting statistics about the current situation of the Jews in Poland. In a nutshell - from the three million Jews living in Poland before the Second World War - 90% percent died in the Nazi death camps - the remaining ten percent or three hundred thousand - also thinned out (left Poland) since 90% of those also left the country. However the remaining 10% or approximately thirty thousand Jews with families - still - not only live in Poland - but - currently - are experiencing a big "renewal/Renaissance" of sorts with many Poles re-claiming their Jewish roots.
According to a spokesman from the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C. - the recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents caused mainly by the radical Muslims - throughout the Western Europe and United Kingdom - does not happen in Poland which only admits the Christian refugees into their country.
The members of the audiences asked a lot of interesting questions - skillfully fielded by Rabbi Schudrich. One Socialistic/Left oriented lady who wanted to demonize Catholic Church asked the Chief Rabbi if Polish Catholics are still anti-Semitic to which he gave her a right answer that the anti-Semites are - unfortunately - found anywhere but the recent - enormously popular - Polish Pope John Paul II/Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was a great friend of the Jews and the Catholic Church changed all of their anti-Jewish edicts.
In any event - all of us will have a super good week which is cold and rainy in our hilly Pittsburgh. We meet again - a week from today - same channel - same time - same place.
Copyright@L.Hadley and Associates 2019
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