[Mamzelle]

H word--in a recent episode of "Sex and the City" on DVD--(OK, it's one of my guilty pleasures), a shiksa character is in love with a Jew, and they want to marry but he promised his mother he'd not marry out of his faith. Then his line--"And my mother had an aunt who knew someone who was in the Holocaust..."

Charlotte the Shiksa says--"Well, now I can't talk about it because you said 'Holocaust'"--too many times the Shoah is used as a rhetorical trump card in discussion. Charlotte eventually converted--he dumped her, but she was not a "fair weather Jew" and continued her observance, only to find herself constantly fixed up with the sons of the nice ladies at her synagogue. Cute story line.

That's what I meant by the "H" word.

[Zionist Conspirator]

One of the savage ironies of life is that those liberal Jews who want to make Holocaust denial a crime are the very people who believe every event of ancient Jewish history is mythical, and who want all belief in its truth and historicity expunged from the minds of the young.

By the way, as one rabbi has pointed out, since "holocaust" is the Septuagint Greek transliteration of the Torah's word `olah ("whole burnt offering") it is actually a singularly inappropriate word for what the Natzim (mach shemam) did. He also pointed out that the constant anti-Semitic attacks disputing the number of Jews who died in that tragedy may be Divine punishment for counting Jews--something forbidden by the Torah since every Jew is the equivalent of an entire world.