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Category Archives: Immigration
Rabbis push Congress on immigration reform
Report: “WASHINGTON (RNS) The call for action on immigration reform was issued just days before Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival that commemorates the 40 years the Israelites wandered in the wilderness after their exodus from Egypt.” Comments: * These rabbis … Continue reading
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‘Join rabbis in advocating for fairer immigration laws’
Rabbi Andrew Straus of Temple Sinai in Oakland has a recipe for destroying America: Although the Secure Communities program originally was intended to target undocumented immigrants who commit violent and serious crimes, it has become an indiscriminate mass deportation program. … Continue reading
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Rabbi Gets Five Years In Massive Immigration Fraud Case
From the press release in 2013: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EARL SETH DAVID was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison for running an immigration … Continue reading
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A Jewish perspective on immigration reform
“Rabbi Morris Allen serves the Beth Jacob Congregation in Mendota Heights. Vic Rosenthal is executive director of Jewish Community Action.” Our work includes persuading those who harbor suspicions of those wishing to be in America. …We must engage with those … Continue reading
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From Stranger to Neighbor
Rabbi Jonathan Prosnit has a recipe for destroying America (but he leaves Israel out of his recipe for national collapse): In every generation we are obligated to see ourselves as though we personally went out from Egypt. The call to … Continue reading
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Judaism and Immigration Reform
Rabbi Jason Rosenberg has a recipe for destroying America: Judaism has something to say about Immigration Reform. And, it starts with Welcoming the Stranger, and Protecting the Weak. Immigration Reform has been a hot issue, these past few months. A … Continue reading
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Frightened Rabbi Wants Her American Citizenship
I find it often helps to see a picture of someone before listening to his ideas. Link Steve Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism: “The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in … Continue reading
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Germany’s Role In Sparking The Refugee Crisis
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Thilo Sarrazin’s recent book comprehensively and explicitly underlines the way the previous mass intake of third world labor into Germany happened to be a non-working, welfare chomping economic and fiscal disaster. * In my younger … Continue reading
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Where Are The Voices Of Jewish Leaders Opposed To Letting In More Muslim Immigrants?
From reading Google News, all I see are Jews welcoming this influx of Islamic immigrants from Syria. Well, how would you like them living in your house? If you don’t want them on your block, why would you wish that … Continue reading
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COMPASSION SIGNALLING ABOUT A SAD PHOTOGRAPH WON’T SOLVE SYRIA’S REFUGEE PROBLEM
James Delingpole writes: It’s a pretty low-down trick, you might have thought, to use a harrowing photograph of a dead child to advance your political agenda and signal the depths of your compassion. But almost everyone has been at it … Continue reading
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