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Showing posts with label Jewish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish. Show all posts
Friday, October 18, 2024

A Very Complex Story: The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People by Walter Russell Mead

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This book is a history of the relationship between Israel and the United States.  Like so many relationships, the partners look back and rew...
Saturday, December 3, 2022

The Genius of Judaism by Bernard-Henri Levy Book 42 of 2022

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  When I began my Jewish journey after torch-carrying Nazis marched in Charlottesville. In my search after that horrible night, Bernard-Henr...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

"Jewish Politics" by Hannah Arendt. Published in 1942. So Relevant Now.

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  Hannah Arendt In 1942 Hannah Arendt , philosopher, historian and refugee of Nazi Germany wrote the following essay.  As I read it, I felt...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Ukraine is My Country--Zelenskyy Showed Me Why

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  President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the  Bad Ass Ukrainian Army  In 1787, Benjamin Franklin urged his colleagues at the Constitutional Conve...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Rabbi Ratifies Replacement-Theory Racism

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Since August 2017, I have been trying to make sense of a world in which torch-carrying Nazis marched on the campus of the University of Virg...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Today is Ukraine Independence Day, and Six Months Since the Start of the Russian Invasion

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  Today is the 31st anniversary of Ukraine's Independence, the day it broke free of the Soviet Union and became an independent nation.  ...
Monday, May 30, 2022

The Netanyahus: A Funny Novel About A Job Interview Gone Very Wrong. Book 18 of 2022

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 A couple of weeks ago, I listened to an interview of American novelist  Joshua Cohen on the Ha'aretz Weekly podcast. Host Allison Ka...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Jews by Choice: Those who choose to be part of a long-persecuted faith/community

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  This week Jews around the world mark the Holocaust Remembrance Day. For me, this day is a swirl of sadness and disbelief that such an atr...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Book 5 of 2022: How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss

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  Bari Weiss wrote this book soon after the slaughter of Jews at prayer at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. Weiss grew up i...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Book 4 of 2022: Biography of Fritz Haber, a French Graphic Novel

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Fritz Haber 1. The Spirit of the Times. I just finished the first of three volumes of a graphic novel biography of the German Jewish chemist...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Everybody Hates Jews

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Honestly by Bari Weiss, a new podcast  One of my favorite new podcasts is Honestly  by Bari Weiss.  She was a columnist at the New York Time...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Christian Nationalism and the Church at the Flossenburg Concentration Camp

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  A Church built onto a guard tower at the Flossenburg Concentration Camp When I visit concentration camps, along with learning about the ho...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Returning from Ukraine with Canadian Cyclists Going to Auschwitz

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Ride for the Living, Auschwitz  In June of 2017, I rode from Belgrade, Serbia, to Lviv, Ukraine. Along the way, I rode in Bosnia, Croatia,...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

My New Breakfast Club--Jewish Draft-Era Veterans

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In November of last year, I started going to the Wednesday morning Minyan prayer group at a synagogue in Lancaster City-- Congregation Sh...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

The German Evangelical Church Backed the Nazis in 1932 Then Turned on Their Jewish Members

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In Charlottesville in 2017 Nazi flags and Rebel flags flew together. Jim Crow laws in the American South  inspired the German race l...