Tag: Nazis
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There Really Are People Who Dream Of A World Without Jews — Many Call Themselves “Republicans”
Jews know what it’s like to be “tolerated”. It’s not the most comfortable place to sit. The ground beneath is unreliable. It can shift at any second. Black and brown and Asian people in America all know what that’s like, too. That’s why some of us try to assimilate. We want to transition from “tolerated”…
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This Atheist Has No Quarrel With Jesus; It’s Christians I Have Issues With…
Growing up Jewish in a mostly Christian world (here in America, back in the 60’s) was like living inside a giant non-sequitur. Growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust (I was born in 1959, 14 years after the camps were liberated) added extra non-sequitur-iness. My tribe was hated to the point of genocide by…
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The Most Frustrating Thing About Anti-Semitism Is What It’s Based On: NOTHING
I’ve said here before that I grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust — in a Jewish suburb of Baltimore just 20 years after the camps were liberated. Many survivors lived in my community. I can tell you from experience — it’s damned hard for a little kid to wrap his young mind around…
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I Grew Up A Child Of The Holocaust
I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. You might think such an awful memory — so close in our rear view mirror — would have made my community so horrified that they couldn’t bear to discuss it. We went completely in the opposite direction. I wouldn’t say we…