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Hannukah 5775: Status of Antisemitism

‘I was at the anti-Semitism rally.

Now what?’

 Berlin writer Donna Swarthout was frustrated by the lack of enthusiasm of Jewish groups  at  September’s landmark anti-Semitism rally in Berlin.  She sees the Berliner Juden as focused on the past, acting like a persecuted minority rather than celebrating Jewish achievements in Germany and using those achievements to fight for continued progress against all racism.  

The thundering triumph of Jewish arms is an ironic coda at a time when Christians are celebrating the warmth of the mid winter fire and the idea of a prince of peace. Even sadder is the knowledge that it was the descendants of the Maccabees, the Hasmonean priests of Herod’s Temple, who conspired with their Roman rulers to create the corruption of Judaism and oppressive conditions that led to the Jewish Revolt and the Temple’s destruction.


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