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Marina's avatar

“Schrödinger’s whites,” as David Baddiel puts it.

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Klaus Schindler's avatar

Thanks...you're so right, it hurts. My male relatives, Wehrmacht and SS then, always mentioned Jews only as "Vaterlandslose Lumpen" and that is what stayed in my mind: people without a home country are seen as worthless...everywhere. This the reason, in my opinion the unavoidable reason, why antisemitism exists everywhere and now is raising it's ugly head.

And your are exactly right about Hitler and his small role in letting the beast out: he allowed what the hungry masses wanted, so he was lifted up and they were let loose. And someone like this is always there, waiting in the background for his time to come - look around these days and you see the energy that's cooking. There's one way out and one way only: the Jews must return to their homeland and defend it, that's the only way the rest of the world will accept them as equals. If you don't fight for your home you don't have one.

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Sarah Archer's avatar

🎯

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David Gedzelman has a great piece that addresses this rather common misunderstanding by American Jews as to what is a Jew. It is people not merely a religion. He writes that the problem is that teaching about Jews is limited to ritual, prayer, and religion, but not about the Jewish people. Jewish peoplehood.

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Irina Likhtina's avatar

Finally someone wrote something that I was confused about since I came to US in 1997 from USSR

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Freedom To Offend's avatar

Great powerful piece Slava.

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Mark L's avatar

Beautifuly written. Very thought provoking .

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Mark L's avatar

Beautifuly written. Very thought provoking .

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Sheila Wilkerson's avatar

Powerful. Brought tears to my eyes.

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Nathaniel Espino's avatar

"Hitler...was not an abomination" - think you mean "aberration," right?

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