[paul_fromatlanta]

Also the school that I went to had many Jewish graduates who were well qualified but woulod not hire Jewish teachers until recently and that only came as a result of a threat from the Ivy League to stop recruiting there.

[dixiechick2000]

"I grew up in the Southern Baptist church confused as to how God could love the Jews in the bible but all the good Christians looked down on them."


WOW! I'm Southern Baptist, from a small town in MS.
We have a large Jewish community.
I have never seen the kind of antisemitism that you describe.

I agree with wardaddy...we could not disagree more.

Maybe private school had something to do with it.
What kind of private school is it, and...

how old are you?

[AnAmericanMother]

That controversy was the biggest bunch of B.S. that ever came down the pike.

It was driven entirely by somebody with a connection to the AJC on the board, who was mad at the school for other reasons. (IIRC, the school didn't admit their kid or the kid of a close friend.) The AJC crusaded over that for months and months and convinced everybody it was some sort of anti-semitic plot.

The school in question is a Presbyterian school, and they were within their rights to hire only Presbyterian or only Christian teachers. The Atlanta Jewish families always sent their kids there for the best available education, but if I sent my kid to the Hebrew Academy, I wouldn't demand that they hire Catholics just because I am one . . .