This just in....Belarus is Anti-Semetic!!

Wow. Who knew? I guess my great, grandfather was right to leave Bobriusk for the slums of West Chicago in 1897.

From the Jerusalem Post article, dated 10/20/07:

"Bobruisk, Lukashenko stressed to his listeners, "is a Jewish town and Jews don't look after places in which they live. It's a fact. Take Israel for example. I was there and saw it for myself." Bottom line, Lukashenko determined that "Jews had turned Bobruisk into a pig sty." Things began to look up, he contended, "only after the Jews departed." That said, he still urged those "Jews who have money" to return to Bobruisk."

Well, as a Jew with very little money myself (I know, hard to fathom in some quarters. I guess I never got the secret handshake from the Elders of Zion) let me state publicly that I plan on not "returning" to Belarus any day soon.

We'll all sleep better tonight I'm sure....