Don't take me wrong, but just a question. Do Jews in Denver fear a Holocaust today here in America?
I know nothing about Denver. But my guess is "No, but..."
In some parts of Eastern Europe, the Jews had been used to second class treatment for a long time before WWII. However, in Germany, antisemitism was more subtle. My family was very entrenched in GERMAN life, as were most German Jews. They were not religious, they did not dress differently, they were very involved in commerce and civics and charities.
They were living hardworking, privileged lives for generations in Germany. They truly did not believe that what eventually happened COULD happen there. To THEM.
A Holocaust survivor and his offspring know more than the average Joe that all the things you have can be taken from you in one second. It is possible. So while Jewish Americans trust this wonderful place of freedom, and would die trying to protect it, we know that persecution is always a possibility. I do not think any Jew here feels that there will ever be institutionalized antisemitism here. But that Holocaust survivor in Denver, thinking back, had reason to shudder, don't you think?
I as an American Jew in fact feel that there is much culturally institutionalized anti-Christianity here, especially in the media and Hollywood, and I try to fight it where I can.
I feel that in Hollywood, shots against Christianity are all too prevalent. The slurs would NEVER stand if they were against Judaism these days, but against what Christians believe, it's "cool." We need to keep calling them on it.