[Dean's World] Naftali: Comment Worthy of a Post.

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Posted by Naftali:
Comment Worthy of a Post.
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1196656666.shtml


   In[1]this well written post Joe Settler wonders if Ehud Olmert had any
   Jewish thoughts after having suffered the bitter fruits of the Israeli
   government's groveling weakness at Annapolis.

   Responding to a commentator who understandably, but wrongly, wonders
   at the possibility, Joe writes:

     There is a true story about an atheist Jew who was put in charge of
     a group of Jews in one of the camps during the Holocaust - a
     "Judenrat".

     On Yom Kippur, the rabbi of that group went and asked him to let
     the group do work on Yom Kippur that didn't require they break any
     of the 39 melachot.

     As anti-religious as this Jew was, he agreed.

     At some time during the day a Nazi came in and told them that he
     knew they were all fasting. If they didn't break their fast he
     would kill them all.

     No one moved.

     This Jew, this Judenrat said to the Nazi, "We are Jews, and we Jews
     do not eat on Yom Kippur."

     The Nazi shot him.....

References

   1. http://joesettler.blogspot.com/2007/12/just-twinge.html