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Tag Archives: world war ii
Why Is Class Hatred Morally Superior to Race Hatred?
Dennis Prager writes: The major difference between Hitler and the Communist genocidal murderers — Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot — was what groups they chose for extermination. For Hitler, first Jews and ultimately Slavs and other “non-Aryans” were declared the … Continue reading
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Tagged class hatred, Dennis Prager, fidel castr, pol pot, race hatred, world war ii
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The Modern Orthodox – Haredi Split
Marc B. Shapiro writes: In Europe, every small town had a rav. Sometimes the rav was an adherent of Agudah, and other times a follower of Mizrachi. But as far as the townspeople were concerned, that didn’t matter. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Haredi, Marc B. Shapiro, Modern Orthodox
Tagged agudah, halakhic questions, haredi world, Marc B. Shapiro, mizrachi, world war ii
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The Conscientious Objector
I just watched this documentary about Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss, a Seventh-Day Adventist hero from my childhood. And I felt split. My heart warmed to his story but my head said that if more people were pacifists like … Continue reading
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Tagged conscientious objector, desmond doss, desmond t doss, false interpretation, honor winner, observant jew, sabbath morning, seventh day adventism, simple faith, sixth commandment, world war ii
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South Korea Embodies Ingratitude
Dennis Prager writes: For decades, there have been anti–U.S. demonstrations in South Korea. And each time I wonder the same thing: Do these people have any idea what that living hell known as North Korea is like? Do these people … Continue reading
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Tagged cognitive dissonance, communism in korea, Dennis Prager, korean peninsula, south koreans, world war ii
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The Gallant Hours
I watched this movie the other night. “The Gallant Hours is a 1960 American biopic docu-drama about Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey and his efforts in fighting against Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and the forces of Imperial Japan in the Guadalcanal … Continue reading
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Tagged admiral isoroku yamamoto, admiral william, bull halsey, guadalcanal campaign, world war ii
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R. Elchonon Wasserman
Jeff emails: “He was the most strident in keeping people from leaving. He was close to the Chofetz Chaim. I was never a big Litvak fan, despite all the postings on the internet with the revisionist ArtScroll history, I actually … Continue reading
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Tagged chofetz chaim, lithuanian collaborators, torah scholar, world war ii, yeshiva students, youth in the usa
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A distressing decision about the military
Greg Leake emails: Hi Luke, I’m a VietNam veteran (once in a neglectful moment, you referred to me as a World War II veteran, which would have made me about 80 or 90 instead of only 15 or 20 years … Continue reading
Posted in Homosexuality, Orthodoxy
Tagged gay americans, homosexual members, military effectiveness, social cohesion, vietnam veteran, world war ii
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Did ‘The Pianist’ Have A Point?
I saw this movie with a gorgeous shiksa in a dark and empty theater and one thing led to another and we were groping each other in the dark like there was no tomorrow. Pictures of the Holocaust do that … Continue reading
Posted in Hollywood, Personal
Tagged andrew gumbel, Dennis Prager, horrors of war, pictures of the holocaust, protagonist, rabbi shmuley, roman polanski, shiksa, world war ii
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‘The Rape of Europa’
No, rabbi, I was not looking at an R-rated movie. I don’t pollute my mind with such forbidden images. This is a documentary about the Nazis grab for art during World War II and how the good guys got most … Continue reading
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Tagged good guys, handsome woman, nazis, rabbi, world war ii
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Child Molesters & The Pope
Rav Adlerstein writes: The plague of molestation and cover-up in the Orthodox community is one of those circumstances. If you have not yet read some of Rav Yaakov Horowitz’s pieces, read them and cringe. His courageous writing is getting progressively … Continue reading
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Tagged assemblyman dov hikind, benzion, moral leader, threats and intimidation, twerski, world war ii
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