Category Archives: Jews

Should American Jews Celebrate The Fourth Of July?

A friend asks: “May a torah jew celebrate goyishe holidays like the fourth of July?” Why do we frum yidden need goyisha holidays? To even ask the question betrays a mindset so far from Torah. It’s like asking if a … Continue reading

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New York’s Anti-Jewish Crime Wave

The New York Post reports: Hatemongers have targeted Brooklyn’s Orthodox community with a vicious assault, a string of synagogue thefts and anti-Semitic vandalism targeting synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods. In the most disturbing incident, a mob of six black teenagers shouting, … Continue reading

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WND: Black Mobs Beating Jews In New York

Chaim Amalek says: “Stupid Mick. More proof that the goyim are nothing without one of us to lead them. Look at where Christianity would be today but for the leadership provided by Jews. Ditto feminism, Marxism, Freudianism, and the Democratic … Continue reading

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Jewish Contempt For Christians

Historian Marc B. Shapiro blogs: While at least since Jacob Katz’s Exclusiveness and Tolerance scholars are now no longer deterred from studying the medieval Jewish view of “the other”, there is still great reluctance to examine contemporary views, for fear … Continue reading

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Should A Religious Jew Save The Life Of A Non-Religious Jew?

Historian Marc B. Shapiro blogs: Here is another responsum, by R. Israel David Harfenes, Nishmat Shabbat, vol. 5 no. 500:4. The author is asked if you can violate Shabbat to save the lives of irreligious Jews who came from the … Continue reading

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