No one thought it could happen here. Yet, 84 years ago today, the Jewish community of Massena, New York was accused of ritually murdering a non-Jewish child.
On September 22, 1928, just two days before Yom Kippur in the rural town of Massena, NY, four-year-old Barbara Griffiths disappeared.
After a long and fruitless search by state police, a rumor began to circulate that the non-Jewish girl had been kidnapped and killed by the town’s Jews for a religious ritual associated with the upcoming holiday.
An angry mob gathered in the town square as the state trooper approached the local rabbi’s home just hours before Yom Kippur…
The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) has produced a short video describing these events and their astonishing outcome ahead of their new course called “Facinating Facts.”
VIDEO:
These blood libels just wont go away…
That is just disgusting. I wonder if the truth was found afterall. If so, did anyone bother to apologize? How can people be so ignorant? I will never understand.
Mayor ‘Haus?’ (Spelling?) Sounds ‘Nazi like.’
The Jew doesn’t’ know (Amazing…shocking) but the mayor and others, do?
Basically, all these anti-Semites are lousy Americans.
They should be expelled from a country whose credo is: “One Nation, Under G-d, Indivisible with Liberty and JUSTICE for All.” Not some.
Perhaps Mayor David Dinkins (YM”S) copied the evil mayor of Massina NY.
That dubious distinction is Georgia in 1912! A Yid was lynched R”L for this garbage which was of course completely disproven — too late to save his life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank
and Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin can’t get a fair trial, have we progressed?
the point is that the boycott of the shops was based on the fact that a random person who was part of the jewish community couldn’t deny ritual murder. JLI’s upcoming course (I think) is about sperating the facts from the myths of Judiasm = building your jewish knowledge confidence.
JLI marketing is the best in Lubavitch!
Great job to whomever deserves the credit.
Hatzlacha in your shlichus!
a blood libel in the great u.s. of a…….waddaya know?
What does this have to do with the beginning of the video?
while this video angers and upsets me because of the blatant anti-semitism, I feel proud to be a Jew nevertheless. Look where we are today! A thriving, successful nation, despite all this disgusting propaganda against us.
actually 83 years ago (it’s still 2011).