Yaakov Menken
By Yaakov Menken
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Opinion For God’s Sake, Stop Preaching Politics From The Pulpit!
America’s partisan divide seems to have reached a new low. Whatever side of the political aisle each of us is on, we can all agree that this is true. Politics are harming relationships to an unprecedented extent, dividing families to the point that they don’t spend holidays together anymore. A just-published study of the emotional…
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Opinion Give Trump The Benefit Of Doubt – You Give It To Democrats All The Time.
On Tuesday, President Trump called American Jews who vote for Democrats disloyal. “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat; it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” he said. On Wednesday, he repeated the claim, explaining that a vote for Democrats, which is where 70-80% of American Jews place…
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Letters No, Orthodox Jews Are Not White Supremacists — And Neither Is Trump
Hostility toward Judaism, Jewish observance and observant Jews has always been a central part of anti-Semitism. Sadly, it doesn’t always come from non-Jews, as Eli Steinberg noted recently in these pages, in an op-ed called “Anti-Orthodox Is the New Anti-Semitism.” Steinberg could have been referring to another opinion piece which emerged but two days earlier,…
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