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phylny

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17. Wow, what a shame. I used to live in Goshen, twenty minutes or so from Pine Bush. It's rural, but

Sat Nov 9, 2013, 10:18 AM

Nov 2013

it's suburban, to be sure.

I grew up on Long Island, where in my experience and the experience of a friend was nothing like this.

I'm Christian, and had a conversation on Facebook with a friend who is Jewish. We recalled that we grew up knowing and accepting the differences between us as a general community. As a community/school district, we sang Christmas and Hanukkah songs, dated people of other religions, and went to each others' Bat/Bar Mitzvahs and confirmations.

This utopia existed in the 60s and 70s. It was like second nature, and no big deal to us.

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Pine Bush, N.Y., School District Faces Accusations of Anti-Semitism [View all] dlwickham Nov 2013 OP

All we need is an economic melt down... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2013 #1

Nope JustAnotherGen Nov 2013 #3

No responses JustAnotherGen Nov 2013 #2

Give it time. It's a lengthy article. icymist Nov 2013 #4

You go into the deep rural areas of any state in this country, and it's hard bullwinkle428 Nov 2013 #6

I grew up in a small town outside of Rochester NY JustAnotherGen Nov 2013 #9

Disgusting. A fish rots from the head down. Major house-cleaning required bullwinkle428 Nov 2013 #5

Try going to a message board like "Lulz" Archae Nov 2013 #7

Amazingly, that's not far from Kiryas Joel, an all-Jewish town KamaAina Nov 2013 #8

whoa. appalling. I just read the article cali Nov 2013 #10

yeah...check out the posts on Kristallnacht. Behind the Aegis Nov 2013 #11

I just checked out the first of your links, Aegis. cali Nov 2013 #14

I grew up in NY being pelted with pennies and having swastikas on my locker. Bonobo Nov 2013 #12

4th grade....sitting in the hallways during Christmas parties Behind the Aegis Nov 2013 #13

omg. I can't imagine. cali Nov 2013 #15

Yup, we got lots of "You killed Christ!" stuff. Bonobo Nov 2013 #16

Wow, what a shame. I used to live in Goshen, twenty minutes or so from Pine Bush. It's rural, but phylny Nov 2013 #17