Why Russian Jews Dreaded Easter Weekend
Apr 21, 2019 09:57:51 #
Why Russian Jews Dreaded Easter Weekend
By Dr. Michael Brown - April 21, 2019
As Christians around the world will be celebrating the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, many traditional Jews will have a different set of emotions, especially those who hail from Russia.
Of course, if Passover and Easter fall at the same time of the year, the Jewish focus will be almost entirely on Passover. Cleansing the house from leaven. Preparing for the Passover meal (called the Seder). Attending special synagogue services.
But if the Easter celebration comes into view, it can stir up some ugly memories. You see, during the days of the pogroms, Easter was the perfect time to go out and k**l those miserable Christ-k**lers. Death to the Jews!
Wikipedia gives the following (quite accurate) description of one such event:
“The Kishinev pogrom was an anti-Jewish r**t that took place in Kishinev, then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on 6-9 April 1903. Further r**ting erupted in October 1905. In the first wave of violence, beginning on Easter Day, 49 Jews were k**led, a number of Jewish women were raped and 1,500 homes were damaged.”
Giving further background:
“The most popular newspaper in Kishinev . . . regularly published articles with headlines such as ‘Death to the Jews!’ and ‘Crusade against the H**ed Race!’ (referring to the Jews). When a gentile Ukrainian boy, Mikhail Rybachenko, was found murdered in the town of Dubossary, about 25 miles north of Kishinev, and a girl who committed suicide by poisoning herself was declared dead in a Jewish hospital, the Bessarabetz paper insinuated that both children had been murdered by the Jewish community for the purpose of using their blood in the pr********n of matzo for Passover. . . . These allegations, and the prompting of the town’s Russian Orthodox bishop, sparked the pogrom.”
But this was not the only time such atrocities occurred in conjunction with Christian celebrations.
Consider these atrocities which took place in Dzialoszyce, Poland, on September 2, 1942, and notice the italicized sentences at the end:
“…The old, the sick, pregnant women and small children, two thousand innocent Jewish souls, were shot and brutally thrown into [freshly dug] graves, one on top of the other. Many of them were still alive! For most of the children they didn’t even waste a bullet. They were just thrown in alive. And together with those who were only wounded, finished their lives under the pressure of the human mass.”
“The next morning, a few of the wounded were able to crawl out of the graves and managed to walk a few metres, but died shortly thereafter…. The larger grave contained a thousand bodies, and the two smaller graves contained five hundred bodies each. We learned of this massacre from the Polish police themselves. They told [our friend] Moshe Hersh about it in great detail, because they themselves had taken part in that slaughter.”
“On the following Sunday, they went to church with their families, as if nothing had happened. They suffered no guilt feelings. After all, they were only murdering Jews, with the blessing of their priests, who inflamed them from their pulpits on Sundays.” (Martin Rosenblum, quoted in Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust: A History of the Jews During the Second World War.
Rosenblum was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. For further, related discussion, see here.)
You might ask me:
“Why in the world would you bring these things up at such a sacred time of the year, a time that is sacred for both Jews and Christians?”
It is because this same Jew-hatred is alive and well today. Because the New Testament is still being used to justify the vilification of the Jewish people (as a whole) as evil Christ-k**lers. Because professing Christians are still accusing the Jewish people (as a people) of every kind of wickedness.
On the Thursday broadcast of the Line of Fire, I interviewed Catholic scholar E. Michael Jones, author of the massive book The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, among other works.
He flatly denies being an antisemite and speaks against hurting the Jewish people physically. At the same time, he affirms the blanket statement that “the Jews k**led Christ” and believes that Paul explicitly taught that “the Jews” are hostile to all people and do not please God.
Dr. Jones is quite capable of speaking for himself, so I simply refer the interested reader to our discussion here. (Note that Dr. Jones has impacted comedian Owen Benjamin in recent months; for my issues with some of Benjamin’s statements about the Jewish people, see here.)
Suffice it to say that, in the first few hours since my interview with Dr. Jones was posted, comments like this began pouring into our YouTube channel:
“(J)ews are filth. So is this moron ‘Dr.’ Brown. Jews usury and blasphemy is what has had them thrown out of 109+ countries. They can’t hide behind the guise of ‘antisemitism’ forever. Jesus cursed these people (remember the fig tree?)”
“Ben Shapiro was cracking jokes about Notre Dame as the spire was falling down but the Jews have been kicked out of over 100 countries for absolutely no reason at all.”
“The Jews are indeed cursed. As taught by the Holy Ghost through St. Paul at 1 Thess. 2:16 about the Jews: ‘the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.’”
“Ye shall know them by their fruits. The fruit of the Jew is subversion because the seed of the Jew is anti-logos. Their seed is from Satan, and their father is the Devil. Just as we can say Muslims are not a peaceful force on earth, rather in their identity is conquest and violence, we can also say the Jew’s identity is the rejection of logos.”
Thankfully, comments like this do not reflect the hearts of countless millions of Christians worldwide, Christians who love the Jewish people and feel a closeness to them because their Savior is himself a Jew (as were all the apostles). And, as a Jewish follower of Jesus myself, I affirm that every one of these commenters can be forgiven through the cross. God’s mercy is great through Jesus!
My appeal here is simple: As we look to the crucified and resurrected Jew this weekend while our Jewish friends and neighbors are celebrating Passover, let’s lift up a prayer of love and compassion for them.
They’ve already experienced more than enough “Christian” h**e.
By Dr. Michael Brown - April 21, 2019
As Christians around the world will be celebrating the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, many traditional Jews will have a different set of emotions, especially those who hail from Russia.
Of course, if Passover and Easter fall at the same time of the year, the Jewish focus will be almost entirely on Passover. Cleansing the house from leaven. Preparing for the Passover meal (called the Seder). Attending special synagogue services.
But if the Easter celebration comes into view, it can stir up some ugly memories. You see, during the days of the pogroms, Easter was the perfect time to go out and k**l those miserable Christ-k**lers. Death to the Jews!
Wikipedia gives the following (quite accurate) description of one such event:
“The Kishinev pogrom was an anti-Jewish r**t that took place in Kishinev, then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on 6-9 April 1903. Further r**ting erupted in October 1905. In the first wave of violence, beginning on Easter Day, 49 Jews were k**led, a number of Jewish women were raped and 1,500 homes were damaged.”
Giving further background:
“The most popular newspaper in Kishinev . . . regularly published articles with headlines such as ‘Death to the Jews!’ and ‘Crusade against the H**ed Race!’ (referring to the Jews). When a gentile Ukrainian boy, Mikhail Rybachenko, was found murdered in the town of Dubossary, about 25 miles north of Kishinev, and a girl who committed suicide by poisoning herself was declared dead in a Jewish hospital, the Bessarabetz paper insinuated that both children had been murdered by the Jewish community for the purpose of using their blood in the pr********n of matzo for Passover. . . . These allegations, and the prompting of the town’s Russian Orthodox bishop, sparked the pogrom.”
But this was not the only time such atrocities occurred in conjunction with Christian celebrations.
Consider these atrocities which took place in Dzialoszyce, Poland, on September 2, 1942, and notice the italicized sentences at the end:
“…The old, the sick, pregnant women and small children, two thousand innocent Jewish souls, were shot and brutally thrown into [freshly dug] graves, one on top of the other. Many of them were still alive! For most of the children they didn’t even waste a bullet. They were just thrown in alive. And together with those who were only wounded, finished their lives under the pressure of the human mass.”
“The next morning, a few of the wounded were able to crawl out of the graves and managed to walk a few metres, but died shortly thereafter…. The larger grave contained a thousand bodies, and the two smaller graves contained five hundred bodies each. We learned of this massacre from the Polish police themselves. They told [our friend] Moshe Hersh about it in great detail, because they themselves had taken part in that slaughter.”
“On the following Sunday, they went to church with their families, as if nothing had happened. They suffered no guilt feelings. After all, they were only murdering Jews, with the blessing of their priests, who inflamed them from their pulpits on Sundays.” (Martin Rosenblum, quoted in Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust: A History of the Jews During the Second World War.
Rosenblum was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. For further, related discussion, see here.)
You might ask me:
“Why in the world would you bring these things up at such a sacred time of the year, a time that is sacred for both Jews and Christians?”
It is because this same Jew-hatred is alive and well today. Because the New Testament is still being used to justify the vilification of the Jewish people (as a whole) as evil Christ-k**lers. Because professing Christians are still accusing the Jewish people (as a people) of every kind of wickedness.
On the Thursday broadcast of the Line of Fire, I interviewed Catholic scholar E. Michael Jones, author of the massive book The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, among other works.
He flatly denies being an antisemite and speaks against hurting the Jewish people physically. At the same time, he affirms the blanket statement that “the Jews k**led Christ” and believes that Paul explicitly taught that “the Jews” are hostile to all people and do not please God.
Dr. Jones is quite capable of speaking for himself, so I simply refer the interested reader to our discussion here. (Note that Dr. Jones has impacted comedian Owen Benjamin in recent months; for my issues with some of Benjamin’s statements about the Jewish people, see here.)
Suffice it to say that, in the first few hours since my interview with Dr. Jones was posted, comments like this began pouring into our YouTube channel:
“(J)ews are filth. So is this moron ‘Dr.’ Brown. Jews usury and blasphemy is what has had them thrown out of 109+ countries. They can’t hide behind the guise of ‘antisemitism’ forever. Jesus cursed these people (remember the fig tree?)”
“Ben Shapiro was cracking jokes about Notre Dame as the spire was falling down but the Jews have been kicked out of over 100 countries for absolutely no reason at all.”
“The Jews are indeed cursed. As taught by the Holy Ghost through St. Paul at 1 Thess. 2:16 about the Jews: ‘the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.’”
“Ye shall know them by their fruits. The fruit of the Jew is subversion because the seed of the Jew is anti-logos. Their seed is from Satan, and their father is the Devil. Just as we can say Muslims are not a peaceful force on earth, rather in their identity is conquest and violence, we can also say the Jew’s identity is the rejection of logos.”
Thankfully, comments like this do not reflect the hearts of countless millions of Christians worldwide, Christians who love the Jewish people and feel a closeness to them because their Savior is himself a Jew (as were all the apostles). And, as a Jewish follower of Jesus myself, I affirm that every one of these commenters can be forgiven through the cross. God’s mercy is great through Jesus!
My appeal here is simple: As we look to the crucified and resurrected Jew this weekend while our Jewish friends and neighbors are celebrating Passover, let’s lift up a prayer of love and compassion for them.
They’ve already experienced more than enough “Christian” h**e.
Apr 21, 2019 11:39:59 #
Jesus himself, denied this accusation that "the Jews k**led Jesus," before His crucifixion ever took place.
He said, "I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father.
And I lay down My life for the sheep.
The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord.
I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father."
(John 10:14-15,17,18)
He said, "I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father.
And I lay down My life for the sheep.
The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord.
I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father."
(John 10:14-15,17,18)
bahmer wrote:
Why Russian Jews Dreaded Easter Weekend br By Dr. ... (show quote)
Apr 21, 2019 11:50:20 #
Zemirah wrote:
Jesus himself, denied this accusation that "t... (show quote)
Amen and Amen very good Zemirah and thanks for that as I had forgot about that as well.
Apr 21, 2019 12:06:41 #
bahmer wrote:
Why Russian Jews Dreaded Easter Weekend br By Dr. ... (show quote)
Well said, but IMHO, it should not matter today whether the Jews, the Romans, Or serial k**ler Ted Bundy
k**led Christ. It happened 2000 years ago, and the statute of limitations should long have expired. Ironically, it is those who shout "Christ K**lers" the loudest who are least likely to follow his teachings
Apr 21, 2019 12:24:59 #
Mutton Dressed As Lamb wrote:
Well said, but IMHO, it should not matter today whether the Jews, the Romans, Or serial k**ler Ted Bundy
k**led Christ. It happened 2000 years ago, and the statute of limitations should long have expired. Ironically, it is those who shout "Christ K**lers" the loudest who are least likely to follow his teachings
k**led Christ. It happened 2000 years ago, and the statute of limitations should long have expired. Ironically, it is those who shout "Christ K**lers" the loudest who are least likely to follow his teachings
exactly buddy
...Apr 22, 2019 06:36:54 #
TommyRadd
Loc: Midwest USA
Zemirah wrote:
Jesus himself, denied this accusation that "t... (show quote)
Good post!
Every human who ever sinned is personally and directly responsible for Christ’s death, whether they like it or not.
Those who blame others for Christ’s death, are obviously deflecting their own guilt, when they should be the ones accepting their own guilt, repenting of it, and thanking Christ for his sacrifice on their behalf.
Real Christians know that if Christ hadn’t died for our sins, and been risen from the dead by his Father, they would still be ens***ed to their sins.
Even the apostles were passively complicit by not testifying to the t***h of Christ’s innocence, Peter going so far as to denying Christ three times. So...
Anyone who thinks that if they were alive and present during Christ’s trial they would have acted differently than someone of those who were recorded acted, are in self-deception mode. Thus those who continue to condemn the Jews are effectively continuing in condemning themselves.
https://youtu.be/jg339oyAydM
Apr 22, 2019 08:33:09 #
Apr 23, 2019 09:54:07 #
Mutton Dressed As Lamb wrote:
Well said, but IMHO, it should not matter today whether the Jews, the Romans, Or serial k**ler Ted Bundy
k**led Christ. It happened 2000 years ago, and the statute of limitations should long have expired. Ironically, it is those who shout "Christ K**lers" the loudest who are least likely to follow his teachings
k**led Christ. It happened 2000 years ago, and the statute of limitations should long have expired. Ironically, it is those who shout "Christ K**lers" the loudest who are least likely to follow his teachings
I believe you are right. “Christ k**ler” comes from hearts already filled with h**e.
I pray that Americans and Christians all over the world will find their hearts filled with love of mankind and more tolerance in this year. He Lives, He lives within my heart.
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