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February 3, 2020

The Boston Rabbi Who Blamed Judaism’s Troubles on an Elaborate Jewish Conspiracy

In the words of Gershom Scholem, “Nonsense based on me!”

The baroque theories of anti-Semites often link Jews to the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and other favorite subjects of conspiracists. The Boston rabbi Marvin Antelman was not the first Jew to promulgate such ideas, but he may have been the only one to use them to detect a plot to undermine Orthodox Judaism from within. Zvi Leshem writes:

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