Suspicious vehicle spotted at scene of the crime:
Posted on 04/21/2011 7:42:33 AM PDT by knarf
While reading something else, I caught this.
No mention of whom might be responsable .....
by Gavriel Queenann Follow Israel news on and .
Arsonists broke into Corfu's only synagogue and burned the community's prayer books and Torah scrolls Tuesday morning.
On Wednesday members of the community, some distraught and weeping, gathered at the synagogue and mourned over the ashes of the Torah scrolls.
Today the Jewish community on Corfu numbers less than 100.
“It’s very difficult for us,” Rabbi Shlomo Naftali, an Israeli rabbi who was flown to Greece to conduct Passover ceremonies. “We stood around the books and cried. Now we’ll have to bury them.”
Former President of the Jewish community of Corfu, Vino Shohi, described the crime, “They came at 3 a.m., put all the books together and burned them. At first I was very upset. I was ashamed that something like this happened here in Corfu, but we have received the support of all the political parties and the archbishop. They all came out in support of us and told us they were our brothers.”
Giorgos Petalotis, a spokesman for the Greek government, condemned the attack Wednesday, saying,, “The burglary that took place in the Jewish Synagogue in Corfu and the destruction of sacred liturgical books is an immoral and appalling act, which the Greek government condemns in the strongest possible manner,”
“I've said before and I say once again," Petalotis said. "Under this unfortunate circumstance, that bigotry and anti-Semitism are concepts incompatible with Greek culture and alien to the mentality of the Greek people. This act cannot overshadow the longstanding tradition of friendship and mutual respect between the two peoples. The Greek authorities have already received instructions to carry out intensive efforts to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice”.
Police on Corfu are investigating the crime. Jewish officials said they had faith the authorities will find the assailants.
“There’s no fear here,” Shoshi said. “There never has been any fear and there never will. We are well-established in Corfu and nobody will make us afraid.”
The Jewish community in Corfu is ancient with roots dating back to antiquity, but most Jews on the island were murdered by the Nazis during the holocaust. The holy books and Torah scrolls survived the holocaust, however, in the hands of gentiles who safeguarded them.
“After the war they gave us all our books back,” Shoshi said. “We had books from the 15th, 16th and 17th century from Trieste, Padova and Verona. Now they are gone.”
The community of Corfu's loss is a loss for the entire Jewish people. The Corfiote Rite is distinct and its liturgy has many peculiarities that set it apart from the mainstream Ashkenazi and Sephardic liturgies most Jews are familiar with today.
Corfiote prayer books, which contain emendations from Mazal-Tob, Isaac ben Abraham, Abraham ben Gabriel ben Mordecai, and Moses ha-Kohen, are rare and unique cultural treasures and were burnt. This, in addition to the destruction of the sacred Torah scrolls.
Joseph ben Abraham, the popular commentator of the Maḥzor, lived in Corfu in 1554.
Amish?
People are such fools
This is far more tragic than it seems on the surface. These Scrolls were priceless.
Either Muslims or ignorant, atheist leftists.
Very sad. These were priceless antiquities.
Those who blasted religious statues in Afghanistan are of the same belief system that burned these unique books.
ISLAM DELENDA EST !
Because of what Islam is, and what Moslims do.
That was my first thought.
I have been obsessed watching and speaking out against the destruction of America .. our history and culture ... and this just slapped me the same way.
I'm angrilly saddened.
They burned the Torah. Let’s see how many Jews riot and kill people.
Suspicious vehicle spotted at scene of the crime:
They think if they destroy our history... BOOKS... and ARTIFACTS...they will have destroyed US.
Sorry, mutant bipeds. It doen’t work that way. WE KNOW our history. WE will go on to make MORE history and we do NOT forget.
ISLAM DELENDA EST !
Is that the same as “islam to the sword and the sword to islam”? My Latin is a bit rusty........ ;)
Islam Delenda Est = “Islam must be destroyed”. I derived it from Cato’s famous “Carthago Delenda Est” which means Carthage must be destroyed.
The Latin is a bit mauled, but the form I used seems to be mose easily recognized....
the following is a modified hymn populat during the WW II period:
“Kill them all, kill them all,
the Sunni, the Shi’a, and all,
kill them all, kill them all, kill them all....
The original was:
Bless them all, bless them all,
the short, the fat, and the tall.... etc.
America must eventually come to grips with the reality that Islam is serious about destroying the American government and imposing Sharia Law in America.
As the military puts it so succinctly; HONOR THE THREAT!
Oh one more thing - beware of the Mansurian Candidate in the White House.
ROTF!!!!!!!
Islam Delenda Est = “Islam must be destroyed”. I derived it from Cato’s famous “Carthago Delenda Est” which means Carthage must be destroyed.
The Latin is a bit mauled, but the form I used seems to be mose easily recognized....
the following is a modified hymn populat during the WW II period:
“Kill them all, kill them all,
the Sunni, the Shi’a, and all,
kill them all, kill them all, kill them all....
The original was:
Bless them all, bless them all,
the short, the fat, and the tall.... etc.
America must eventually come to grips with the reality that Islam is serious about destroying the American government and imposing Sharia Law in America.
As the military puts it so succinctly; HONOR THE THREAT!
Oh one more thing - beware of the Mansurian Candidate in the White House.
Former President of the Jewish community of Corfu, Vino Shohi, described the crime, "They came at 3 a.m., put all the books together and burned them. At first I was very upset... but we have received the support of all the political parties and the archbishop. They all came out in support of us and told us they were our brothers." ...The Jewish community in Corfu is ancient with roots dating back to antiquity, but most Jews on the island were murdered by the Nazis during the holocaust. The holy books and Torah scrolls survived the holocaust, however, in the hands of gentiles who safeguarded them. "After the war they gave us all our books back," Shoshi said. "We had books from the 15th, 16th and 17th century from Trieste, Padova and Verona. Now they are gone."
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Mennonite. Definitely. I warned everyone of the Mennonite threat.
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