The Enduring Irrationality of Anti-Semitism
Timeless thoughts from a great historian.
November 2, 2018
When aimed at the ultra-Orthodox, it generally goes unnoticed.
While hardly on the bloody scale of last Saturday’s massacre in Pittsburgh, physical assaults on Jews in New York City—not to mention anti-Semitic graffiti and similar acts of vandalism—are far more common than most would believe. Often the victims are visibly religious, and the attacks get relatively little attention from the press. Ginia Bellafante writes:
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A clash of ideas, not of civilizations.
In some ways, halakhah is more about social norms than about law.
When aimed at the ultra-Orthodox, it generally goes unnoticed.
Isaac, Ishmael, . . . and Fatimah.