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JTA: After Elie Wiesel, can anyone unite American Jews?

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Luke Ford

Another way of posing the question is — aside from victimhood and making a religion out of the Holocaust, is there any way of uniting Jews? The answer is probably not. A Jewish identity rooted in the Holocaust is good … Continue reading →

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JTA: Warmonger or humanitarian? Getting to know Avigdor Lieberman

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

In different contexts, the same people are likely to be warmongers or humanitarians. Sometimes, to be humane to your own people, you have to wage war on your enemies. Israel, if it is to survive as a Jewish state in … Continue reading →

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JTA: Jewish groups unite to defend Muslims from discrimination

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Luke Ford

If you found your bedroom filled with poisonous snakes, who would you hate? The snakes or the people who put them there? The Jewish groups in the following story want to fill your community with poisonous snakes. From many a … Continue reading →

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JTA: Meet the ‘intensely neurotic’ Jew saving the world’s refugees

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

She doesn’t feel any need to bring them to Israel. Only the West must absorb these refugees. Physiognomy is destiny. These are the women destroying Western civilization. She’s absorbed with tikkun olam and the refugees she’s bringing over will rape, … Continue reading →

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JTA: Five Shocking Quotes From Israel’s Chief Rabbis

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

I don’t find these quotes shocking. They are basic Torah or a basic function of social identity (the more strongly you identify with your group, the more likely you are to have negative views of outsiders). (JTA) — Israel’s Sephardic … Continue reading →

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