I know the feeling, Anat.We have had that in Jewish schools here in the UK for years. Before that, we had that in Jewish schools in South Africa. Once in SA our burglar alarm went off and my 3 year old fell flat on his face into the flower bed. He explained that this is what they were trained to do at nursery school at the sound of an alarm. And of course this is nothing compared to what is routine in Israel.

Whenever we are looking for a synagogue in, say Prague or just about anywhere in Europe and not sure of the precise location, we just know to watch out for the building with the police or security outside. In Istanbul, frustrated by finding the famous synagogues barred and locked (after the terror of recent years there) and only able to visit by prior arrangement and upon production of passports, my son burst out in frustration- why can I just stroll into any mosque but my synagogues are everwhere under siege. When we did manage to attend a shabbat service by prior arrangement, we noticed under every seat a hard hat as used on construction sites.

If you have the stomach, you can find links to some of his writings…”

Are they any different from an Uck-U discussion?

:(

Jews in my small Midwestern city cannot worship freely anymore. Every time our children go to services they see the police protecting us. I had to explain to my eight-year-old son the first time why the police were there. I tried to explain it calmly, and without scaring him, but it has never been the same.

I would like to point out that no other house of worship here, including the mosques, needs protection.

Since police officers risk their lives to protect us, we feel that we should do everything in our power to protect them which means their premeditated murder is a capital offense.

If capital punishment is to be applied, it should be applied in all cases of murder where guilt has been proven beyond all measure of doubt.

Who sez? We’re a republic. The individual jurisdictions determine which crimes are death eligible. All have made the murder of a police officer a capital offense.

Also, the USSC has ruled that it is unconstitutional to make all first degree murder a mandatory death sentence.

“Attorney General Eric Holder and members of Congress had been scheduled to attend the world premiere of a play, ‘Anne and Emmett’ Wednesday night (at the Holocaust Museum). The performance has been cancelled in the wake of the shooting.

The New York Times describes the play as ‘a fictional dialogue between Anne Frank, whose diary recounted her days in hiding during the Holocaust, and Emmett Till, a black teenager killed by white racists in 1955.’”!