Is Dothan, Alabama The Promised Land? Poem by Joe Rosochacki

Is Dothan, Alabama The Promised Land?

Rating: 2.7


“I reckon thar be whole bunch of Jews would be fixin’ to get the 50K”,
That could be what I can possibly hear in Dothan,
Dothan wants to gets more Jews,
so City of Dothan is offering $50,000.00 each family,
(Tevye would jump at the task at hand,
He could have bunch of Ffiddler's on his barn roof!)
Not for Bounty!
Like some KKK member would ask.
Maybe for the Jews that lost their money with Madoff
They like to consider this proposition,
-moving would be a task,
But the Jews moved for 5,000 years or so,
Boca Raton, West Palm Beach is hop,
-skip, and jump from Dothan.
Who knows what is to be unfurled?
Dothan isn't exactly a hot spot for Jews:
'The town is smack in the middle of the Bible Belt and calls itself the Peanut Capital of the World.'
What an integration.
Are peanuts Kosher?

It seems as though Dothan’s only synagogue,
Temple Emanu-El,
is running low,
On congregation,
It is liable to become a Baptist church like the Synagogues
and Catholic Churches have done in Detroit and other cities as well.

Star of David which is the building that was B’Nai Moshe that later became St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church
The Rabbi fears,

With one new family already in the fold, and hundreds of others expressing interest, the goal is to bring as many as 19 more Jewish families to this mostly Christian town of 58,000 in rural southeast Alabama over the next five years.

Shalom all y’all.

(3-7-09)

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