How disturbing – the following SMS/text message is circulating within the New York Jewish community: “A Jewish woman gave a tip to a Muslim taxi driver and out of appreciation he warned her not to go to Manhattan next week Wednesday.”

Hopefully it is just a hoax and will remain untrue. Allegedly the message has been sent as a sort of anti-Semitic psychological war in response to Gaza, or so Yeshiva World News reports. Snopes.com feels that there is little validity to this quote, and a blog called “YidVid” writes that this is definitely untrue – I hope they’re correct.