Denying the Holocaust and rejecting Christianity – Christian Post
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By Robin Schumacher, Voices Contributor | Monday, March 09, 2020 The ability for a human being to not believe the truth about something can be breathtaking.
The Dark Universe of Antisemitism – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com
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Photo Credit: Youtube {Originally posted to the BESA website} In the global battle against antisemitism, a definition of this hatred is essential.
Israel’s leading rabbi thinks not studying Torah is more dangerous than coronavirus – Haaretz
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Schools were closed for the second day across Israel and the night before, the government had prohibited gatherings of over 10 people. But at noon on Sunday at Ohel Shimon, a Hasidic yeshiva in central Jerusalem, it was business as usual.
Ve haf vays of making you admit climate change – The Conservative Woman
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IN a recent issue ofOxford Magazinethe theme was Climate Change Special. It was packed with the usual canards as might be expected. But one article in particular caught my eye
An online trip with fascists, conspiracists and trolls – The Age
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What makes this guff credible to anyone? Conspiracism flourishes during uncertainty, offering an overarching (and thus reassuring) explanation to people confronting apparent chaos. But, as Ebner explains, in a chronicle of two years engaging with online trolls, alt-rightists and Nazis, the structures of the internet often facilitate bizarre and abhorrent ideas
Religion events in the San Fernando Valley area, March 14-21 – LA Daily News
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Find a spiritual experience at religious centers in the San Fernando Valley area. Here is a sampling of services and special events
Black in Rembrandt’s time: a myth-shattering exhibition on identity and truth – DutchNews.nl
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A new exhibition at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam tells the story of the black community in 17th century Dutch society and how the portrayal of black figures in Western art reveals much about attitudes to race. With a keen eye, surprising discoveries can be made in Jacob van der Ulfts gouache painting The Market in Dam Square, Amsterdam (1653). Amidst all the loading and unloading of goods, trading and gossiping, are a trio of turbaned men from the East and, mixing in with the crowd at a fish stall, a black-skinned man dressed in blue.
Dutch Golden Age Art Wasnt All About White People. Heres the Proof. – The New York Times
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Ms. Archangel said that the focus of the show is on images that present the many different roles that black people played in society, and the many different roles they played in paintings for artists. The exhibition, she added, portrays more than what we knew before, which were mostly images of servants and enslaved people.
Ashkenazim and the Sephardic Pronunciation of Hebrew, Part III – Jewish Link of New Jersey
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This piece will focus on how and why some Ashkenazic Jewsboth religious and (later) secularadopted the Sephardic pronunciation of Hebrew because they deemed it superior to the Ashkenazi one. Hungary never had a strong tradition of pronouncing the prayers in the Sephardi pronunciation.
How this Jerusalem left-wing bastion turned right in Israel’s last election – Haaretz
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There was a small political revolution in this months Knesset election in Jerusalems prestigious Rehavia neighborhood: The party that got the most votes was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus Likud. That surprised even Pini, the owner of a tiny neighborhood delicatessen, who was pleased and proud about the development: For 40 years, I fought without success with residents who didnt vote Likud, he says
