Are You Toasting Marshmallows? #251 By Hank Silverberg Antisemitism! Just mentioning the word should send a chill up your spine. It is another form of racism, though many people would not label it as such. The rise in this type of hate aimed at Jews is not new. It's been around as long as Judaism itself. History records the destruction of the Hebrew temple in Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, and the destruction of the second temple by the Romans in 70 A.D. If you have been well educated you are aware of the Spanish Inquisition in Spain starting in the late 15th century aimed at purging Jews from the Spanish peninsula. And it went on, the pogroms in Russia in the 19th and early 20'th century, and then the worst of it all, the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945 which led to the murder of six million European Jews. To...