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Sep. 10th, 2010 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccSo in response to the whole Kristallnacht redux thing being proposed there's a group started on facebook called "Don't burn a book, read one!!"
With which I heartily concur.
Not least because I tend towards the theory that it's probably better to try and broaden your mind than close it off.
And to end on a more positive note: there's a new synagogue being built in Beirut. Yes, the Beirut in Lebanon.
This isn’t some hole in the wall, nondescript, “excuse me” synagogue hidden out of view so as to not “offend” Lebanese non-Jews—this is an elaborate, ornate, beautifully designed, cathedral-style house of worship built for a Lebanese Jewish population that totals less than 500 in a country of more than 4,000,000 (in stark contrast to the eight million American Muslims living in the United States).
With which I heartily concur.
Not least because I tend towards the theory that it's probably better to try and broaden your mind than close it off.
And to end on a more positive note: there's a new synagogue being built in Beirut. Yes, the Beirut in Lebanon.
This isn’t some hole in the wall, nondescript, “excuse me” synagogue hidden out of view so as to not “offend” Lebanese non-Jews—this is an elaborate, ornate, beautifully designed, cathedral-style house of worship built for a Lebanese Jewish population that totals less than 500 in a country of more than 4,000,000 (in stark contrast to the eight million American Muslims living in the United States).
