Should we flinch? Draw back in fear? Show pain or distress?

No. But not to take thought-out, proactive measures is sheer folly.

This article instead reacts to opinions of people or organizations who may or may not represent the Jewish people, instead of directly addressing the actions of Putin and his secret police state in their "near abroad".

As such, it is a distracting side-step from what the ECC should and could be doing.

I agree that this kind of reaction, ***MONTHS*** after the fact is probably a waste of time. Which brings us back to the theme that got erased from EE yesterday. Will ECC issue a statement regarding Van Loan's insistence that ECC asked him and his government to "lay low" during the April/May crisis in Estonia?

Whoever has followed history in EE should by now have a pretty good grasp on the subject. What always amazes me about these sorts of issues is that rather than going to the real source on the condition of anti-Semitism in Estonia-namely Zuroff pinning the Estonian-Jewish community-Canadian Jewry in this particular case finds more comfort in approaching Russia for its answers. This is the same kind of long-drawn bow similar to the subject of Communism v's Nazism, and the collective cultural influence of Adolf Hitler's version of the "Teutonic plague" that were subsequently grafted onto the historical pages of Estonia. As it stands, most Jews will ultimately admit to being more left of politics than right, for the simple reason that dreaded Adolf stuffed up any opportunity for them to embrace anything too far right, because it almost wiped their own slate clean. The other issue is that Russia, through its defeat of Germany, will always have a victory card up its sleeve that most of the world sincerely believes was unselfishly earned, and Russia is only too keen to play this card of its own "trustworthiness" whenever a country becomes embroiled over the unresolvable Communist/Nazi plight.

Whoever has followed history in EE should by now have a pretty good grasp on the subject. What always amazes me about these sorts of issues is that rather than going to the real source on the condition of anti-Semitism in Estonia-namely Zuroff pinning the Estonian-Jewish community-Canadian Jewry in this particular case finds more comfort in approaching Russia for its answers. This is the same kind of long-drawn bow similar to the subject of Communism v's Nazism, and the collective cultural influence of Adolf Hitler's version of the "Teutonic plague" that were subsequently grafted onto the historical pages of Estonia. As it stands, most Jews will ultimately admit to being more left of politics than right, for the simple reason that dreaded Adolf stuffed up any opportunity for them to embrace anything too far right, because it almost wiped their own slate clean. The other issue is that Russia, through its defeat of Germany, will always have a victory card up its sleeve that most of the world sincerely believes was unselfishly earned, and Russia is only too keen to play this card of its own "trustworthiness" whenever a country becomes embroiled over the unresolvable Communist/Nazi plight.