(Jewish Group) Most of the victims of Highland Park were Jewish. A memorial with Christian imagery?

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Most of the victims of Highland Park were Jewish. Why is their memorial filled with Christian imagery?

Ten years ago, the Church of Latter-day Saints caused a stir by posthumously baptizing Anne Frank, arguably the most well-known victim of the Holocaust and one of the most recognizable Jews in world history.

Though Mormons represent only a minority sect controversial to Christendom — in fact, even Jews outnumber Mormons in the United States — the bizarre co-opting of the religion, identity and legacy of a girl who was killed for nothing but being Jewish represents a larger and persistent pattern of Jews’ very Judaism being glossed over or even erased completely.

I bore witness to this phenomenon while standing at an impromptu memorial assembled in downtown Highland Park, Illinois, for the seven victims of the tragic shooting there earlier this week.

I grew up two towns over from Highland Park in Glenview, where I attended high school for several years. I recall breakfasts at Walker Bros. — a popular pancake house the shooter would later aim at — and dozens of meditative drives up and down Sheridan Road through the intersection of St. Johns Avenue and Central Avenue, where the memorial is located.

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Yet another example of "Jewish Lives DON'T Matter". I remember after the Parkland murders, someone hung crosses off a billboard, another Jewish poster pointed out most of the victims were Jews, and I agreed and said it reflected ignorance of us. We were both attacked by other posters screeching about "how those brave people risked going up on the billboard under police fire to hang memorials and we were bitching about "crosses"." Of course, there was NO police fire, and all it confirmed is that "representation matters", but only in certain cases, and Jews aren't among them....and here we are again!