This is why America is the greatest country in the world (outside of Israel) for Jews. (H/T: Brother Eric)
Residents stepped in to help Saturday after vandals spray-painted hateful words and symbols on all sides of a neighborhood synagogue.
Because members of the Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora were honoring the Sabbath and could not immediately begin the cleanup, dozens of people unconnected to the institution converged on Donnelly Street to do the work.
The volunteers included community leaders, members of some of the city’s churches and, in some cases, passers-by who saw what had happened and wanted to help.
“Our whole community has turned out,” said Vasco Watters, a member of the City Council.
It was an unbelievable turnout, and an amazing, generous act by our fellow Americans.
They worked through heat, humidity and driving rain, vowing to keep at it until the offensive words and images had been scoured away and painted over.
“I honestly can’t believe this stuff still goes on,” said Paul Castor, who lives next door and was among the volunteers. “You would think that children or whoever did this would have been raised better.”
Watters said he heard about the vandalism about 7 a.m. from a resident who had been on the way to work. He and his family changed their plans and drove to the synagogue to begin working, he said.
Even the mayor turned out.
Mayor Melissa DeMarco, who also had been drenched in one of the downpours that passed over the facility at least three times Saturday, said she was outraged by the vandalism.
“I want people to know whoever did this crime is not representative of Mount Dora,” she said.
We do know that. America’s Jew-haters are few in number, and are quickly prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law when they do things like this and get caught. Europe is an entirely different story. They are being driven out of Sweden. Russian neo-Nazis didn’t like the guilty verdict for their fellow thugs, who murdered dozens of people, so they attacked a synagogue. The rise of Muslim anti-Semitism in Europe has not just affected Jews in Europe, but it has also managed to close down Yale’s program that was studying modern anti-Semitism and reporting that it seemed to be based mostly in Muslim communities throughout the world. And here in North America, anti-Semitism is on the rise in Canada.
America is the greatest country in the world to live in, and not just if you’re Jewish. I’ll take my native land over any other.