"One historian summarized the Jewish experience in America. "This is the first land where the Jews didn't automatically have to fear the police." His meaning was that, for too long, authority and the individuals who wield power were capricious, arbitrary, rapine. Holocaust chronicler, Dr. Raul Hilberg, put it another way when he writes in capturing the logic and horror of some 1700 years of experience with the "civilized" western world. "The Church said you may not live among us a s Jews. " The result was conversion, exclusion, or ghettoization. Then Hilberg continues: "After the Church, the State said you may not live among us." The consequence: More ghettos, often violence, sometimes expulsion. "The Nazis then said you may not live." -Michael Zedek
“Between 1305 and the early 1800’s. the House of Taxis ran a form of pony express service all over Europe…. Its couriers clad in blue and silver uniforms, crisscrossed the continent carrying messages between princes and generals, merchants and money lenders.” –Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave We may think we are the first generation consumed by rapid communication but we are not. Throughout our history it has been a priority. Of course, now in the 21 st century we must ask: are we better or worse for it?
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