RABBI WEIN THE AMERICAN BABYLONIA

(PLEASE LEARN AS A ZECHUS FOR ERETZ YISRAEL)

I know that it is not nice to kick anyone while that person is down. In fact, it is not nice to kick anyone at all at anytime. A substantial portion of the American Jewish community has sustained great physical and monetary, psychological and social damage as a result of the devastation wrought by hurricane Sandy. So now is perhaps an inauspicious time for an article dealing with, what in my opinion, is the troublesome future of that community. But I have just recently done quite a bit of study and research on the Jewish community of Babylonia in the previous millennia and I was struck by certain similarities to the current American Jewish community.