Anti-Semitism Is a Threat to Western Civilization Itself
And it’s a very present threat, on both sides of the Atlantic.
December 31, 2019
Some back-of-the-envelope sociology of American Jewry.
According to the available statistics. two-thirds of American Jews light candles at least once over the course of the Festival of Lights. Yet Cole Aronson suggests that the story of the Hasmoneans’ victory over an imperial power that wanted to enforce religious conformity—and also over those Jews who wanted to compromise with it—is remembered in very different ways:
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Login or SubscribeAnd it’s a very present threat, on both sides of the Atlantic.
And exposes other myths about Israel’s War of Independence.
“Traces of an omniscient God” or “unspeakably offensive to eye and nostril”?
A new scholarly analysis of the early church.
Some back-of-the-envelope sociology of American Jewry.