A Jewish deli owner in suburban Chicago came under fire for a cartoon of a Trump-like figure giving the Nazi salute displayed prominently on it’s High Holidays Menu.

Max�s Deli of Highland Park posted the menu on it’s Facebook page on Aug. 23, but it only began to gain notice Thursday.

The cartoon figure is wearing a military uniform, a red swastika armband and a T-shirt proclaiming �I�m With Alt-Right.� The frowning Nazi sports blonde hair, resembling the appearance of President Donald Trump.

In a Facebook post accompanying the menu, the Deli wrote �Here�s a hard question: what do they really mean by Alt-Right? I�ll tell you what they really mean � Nazi.�

Referencing the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the post reads: �Look how easily we pretend nothing�s happening. Or the problem is Steve Bannon instead of Donald Trump.�

Deli owner Greg Morelli posted an apology on Friday, a day after the story was reported by several local media outlets and he had begun receiving backlash.

Under the heading �Atonement,� the post reads: �3 Little Words. I Was Wrong. To those of you who called, who reached out, who saw me against the ropes, who offered a hand instead of a fist, L�Chaim! To those of you who bashed, who reacted without thinking, who fed on the indignation of others, who threatened my business, L�Chaim!�

The post concludes: �We�re all in this. We�re all still here. Trump is still president. This might surprise you, but I don�t want Impeachment. I don�t want Censure. I don�t want President Pence. I want a robust conversation. Then in the next election, I want the vote to show us who we really are. I want us to own it!�

Morelli, who co-owns the Highland Park diner with his brother, told the�Chicago Tribune�the deli had been inundated with angry calls about the post, and even his own family is��done with him.”

In an interview with�NBC Chicago, he�explained that his Judaism led him to speak out after the deadly events at Charlottesville. �I�m a Jew. I cannot pretend, in this movement, that I�m not afraid�but I�m also afraid of being afraid,� he said. �I�m not going to go quietly on a train.�

�I have a Jewish deli, I am a Jewish man,� Morelli told the Tribune. �I am the first person that�s going to get a brick through the window if this plague is not stopped immediately.�

Morelli told NBC he decided to use the High Holidays catering menu to send his message because Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana are about atonement and learning from your mistakes.

�I just couldn�t help but feel like, if this president could learn anything from the High Holidays, it’s that it�s OK to be wrong,� he said. �You�re making me uncomfortable, man, you�re supposed to be the president.�

Morelli said he hopes that people realize that racism and anti-Semitism aren�t a thing of the past.

�Whenever someone�s quiet, as a group, people get away with terrible things,� he said.

(Nat Golden – YWN)