“If the Nazis searched out every Jew in hate, we will search out every Jew in love."
-Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on the Rebbe's extraordinary mission to bring Moshiach with urgency, love, and hope for a world after the Holocaust (Kinus Hashluchim Gala Banquet 5772-2011)
When Lou Piniella joined the Yankees in 1974 George Steinbrenner told him to cut his hair, it was too long.
If you don't know the Yankees had a policy on no beards or long hair.
Lou Piniella said this:
"Our Lord Jesus Christ was the greatest person who ever lived and he had long hair". George Steinbrenner then took him across the street to a swimming pool down in Florida and said:
"If you can walk across that water, you can wear your hair any way you want to"
Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.