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Abdul El-Sayed’s victory earlier this month in Michigan’s senatorial Democratic primary has left many Americans supporters of Israel unnerved. Should they be? Well, Mr. El-Sayed has appeared happily in public alongside Hasan Piker (who has shared antisemitic sentiments and support for terrorism); and Mr. El-Sayed answered a reporter’s question, “Do you think [Israel is] just as evil as Hamas?”…
There’s a deep reason for Jew-hatred
NYC Bus Ads Assault Some Senses
The prejudice persists
Updating the Isms
A visitor's comment yielded a thought
Two years into my study at Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, back in the 1970s, I came to consider Rav Yaakov Weinberg my personal rebbe, or rabbinic guide. He was not only tremendously knowledgeable in Torah, but also in myriad other areas. Impressively eloquent and deeply principled, Rav Weinberg, whose yahrtzeit , or anniversary of passing, was last week, was always fascinating to…
There are spectra, people
The New York Times Magazine recently carried a language column by Nitsuh Abebe about the evolution of the word “goy,” from Hebrew to Yiddish to antisemitic dog whistle to, believe it or not, “zoomer slang.” Apparently, some young people, unaware of the word’s root, are using it in a way that reflects antisemites’ fantasies, referring, for instance, to unhealthy food as “goyslop.” (Mr. Abebe quotes…
An unabashed argument for the truth of Judaism
