[I_Love_My_Husband]

You know...if people can wear tee shirts that say White People Suck, Black Power and they make movies that say White Men Can't Jump, then what is the big deal? I don't have any confederate ancestors (I'm Jewish) but at this point in history to me, the Confederate flag just represents the South...which has some mighty fine people living in it.

Cheers to you Southerners.

[Lee_Atwater]

I don't have any confederate ancestors (I'm Jewish)

A small point: A top Confederate cabinet official was Jewish (Judah Benjamin - I think he was Sec. of State). I don't know of any others, but he stands out.

[Constitution Day]

I don't have any confederate ancestors (I'm Jewish)

Thanks for your kind comments re: the South.
My wife is also Jewish (and from S. Africa).

FWIW, you may find this book of interest:

Cheers to you -

CD

[archy]

I don't have any confederate ancestors (I'm Jewish) but at this point in history to me, the Confederate flag just represents the South...which has some mighty fine people living in it.

Cheers to you Southerners.

I've been here in the South for but half a decade, but the hospitality and charm of the place is beyond what its reputation claims.

But like those other folks here have suggested, check out a copy of that book about *Jews in the Confederacy* from Ben Judah on down, and do a little research. You might just find a family skeleton in that closet....

Jews In The Confederacy

"The Jewish Confederates" (University of South Carolina Press"

The book, by Charleston lawyer Robert Rosen, reveals what amounts to a de facto coverup of the 300-plus-year history of Jews in the South.

BOOK DETAILING 'SECRET' CHAPTER OF HISTORY STIRS CONTROVERSY

Bill Hendrick - Staff
Sunday, January 7, 2001

As a kid growing up in Atlanta's Druid Hills neighborhood in the mid-1950s, Reg Regenstein often went relic hunting with friends, hoping to find Civil War cannonballs and artillery shells that were being dug up with regularity.

"I'd find an old bullet sometimes, but never anything of significance," says Regenstein, a 57-year-old author and former CIA intelligence officer. "But it was pretty common for people to find Minie balls and shells, some still lodged in trees."

Unlike most of his Jewish friends, he didn't see the Civil War through an impersonal prism --- as somebody else's history. He vaguely knew it was his own, because many of his ancestors fought in what his mother, longtime civil rights supporter Helen Regenstein, still calls the "War of Northern Aggression."

Now, to his delight, he's learning much more than he ever dreamed he would, mostly because of a new book, "The Jewish Confederates" (University of South Carolina Press, $39.95), which is stirring controversy among Jews and attracting some scholarly praise. The book, by Charleston lawyer Robert Rosen, reveals what amounts to a de facto coverup of the 300-plus-year history of Jews in the South.

Historians have recorded that African-Americans and Indians fought in the Rebel army, but Rosen's is the first major work detailing the contribution of the South's Jewish community, then about 25,000 strong, to the Lost Cause.

"Many folks," says Rosen, 53, "are reluctant to admit that a people known for liberal views, and for annually celebrating their own freedom from slavery in Egypt during the Passover holiday, supported the Confederacy, which defended human bondage. It's not something many Jews want to hear."

[Twodees]

Cheers to you Southerners.

Cheers to you too, ma'am.

Your servant,

Edd

[Rebelo3]

You can learn about Jewish Confedrates at this site:

http://www.Jewish-history.com/civilwar.htm

[PoisedWoman]

I wonder whether I can get Confederate license plates in WA state. LOL. Actually, I think I'm entitled to them. And a DAR bumper sticker too.

[stand watie]

we southrons had MANY Jewish hero-martyrs that wore the GRAY!

for dixie,sw