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John Ripma

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(Contains Sensitive Racial Content) A Witness to Hatred

Submitted to Contest #296

Saturday, October 12, 1958 - 4:39 a.m.Rabbi Jacob Emden’s phone rang. It was bright green, a fancy new color Southern Bell had just introduced to the Atlanta market. The rabbi’s congregation presented it to him on his fifty-first birthday. He took one look at the colorful gift and, showing off his legendary Talmudic humor, said, "A green phone. Oy vey! Now when I call God, I'll be sure I'm using the ‘kosher’ line!"The blessed thing rang…and rang…and rang mercilessly in the dark, shattering the silent stillness of his bedroom. Rabbi jerked in...

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