point of view, Mr. Dinners-
tein argued that, though an-
ti-Semitism is not dead, it is
so dormant as to pose no real
threat.
Prof. Dinnerstein traced
the steady decline of anti-
Semitism in the U.S. from
its peak in the mid-1940s,
suggesting that in every
area of life, barriers have
come crashing down for
Jews. His take on the future:
"Jews have little to worry
about."
When Prof. Dinnerstein
completed his remarks, Abe
Foxman took the
microphone, threw his hands
in the air a la Jackie Mason
and spoke the eternal
Yiddish phrase, "From your
mouth to God's ears." It was
a moment that seemed to
define the conference.
Clearly, the truth lies
somewhere in between what
some may call Prof. Dinners-
tein's Pollyanna outlook and
the doom and gloom sug-
gested by counting
swastikas on synagogues
and the number of skinheads
and neo-Nazis.
If there is a transcendent
danger, one that poses more
of a threat than a Leonard
Jeffries or a Crown Heights
or a cross burning in Alber-
ta, it is what Mr. Koch and
Mr. Foxman referred to as
"the silence of decent peo-
ple," both Jewish and non-
Jewish, to speak out against
anti-Semitism.
Mr. Koch, whose speech
closed the conference, went
as far as to suggest an anal-
ogy between the current
situation and what he called
"the pre-World War II syn-
drome" when the world, in-
cluding the Jewish commun-
ity in America, was nearly
silent to the plight of Jews
trying to flee Germany.
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sparsely attended march
against anti-Semitism
organized in New York in
the wake of the Crown
Heights incident. "Where
were they?" Mr. Koch asked
painfully, about Jews and
gentiles alike who stayed
away in droves. His question
went unanswered. Given the
history of the Jewish people,
even Prof. Dinnerstein
would not likely take solace
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