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Jihadist Islam: The New Nazism of Our Time

 

Never underestimate the power and religious fervor of Jihadist Islam, the new and improved version of Nazism of our time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QXI0nI6E0

In his 2012 speech shortly after the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, the President mentioned some thirty-two times that “al Qaeda was on the path to defeat,” “decimated.” Such rhetoric makes Neville Chamberlain look like General Patton in comparison. Cheney is not one of my favorite politicians, but ...

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Categories: Anti-Semitism, Contrarian wisdom, ethics, good and evil, Holocaust Related Issues, Interfaith Dialogue

Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi — A Rebbe to Remember

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Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014) died on July 3rd this past week. The world has lost of one its greatest and most imaginative modern Rebbes of modern times. In the early sixties, he and Shlomo Carlbach were among the earliest followers of Rabbi Schneersohn and their success set the standard for generations of Chabad shiluchim (emissaries).

My experience with Reb Zalman goes back almost four ...

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Categories: American Jewish Issues, biblical theology, Contrarian wisdom, Current Events, Hassidic Theology, Heart-Centered Judaism, Humor, Interfaith Dialogue

A Personal Note to Prof. Walter Davis and the Presbyterian Church

  • “Today, we’re coming after the Saturday people; after we finish, we will come after the Sunday people”

My personal history with the Presbyterian Church goes back to the early 1990s, when they accepted me as a student for their doctoral program. In the three years I attended the SFTS (San Francisco Theological Seminary) in San Anselmo, CA., I considered it one of the most important learning experiences of my life. I had some outstanding scholars ...

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Categories: American Jewish Issues, Anti-Semitism, Contrarian wisdom, Current Events, ethics, good and evil, Holocaust Related Issues, Interfaith Dialogue, Political Commentaries

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Niemöller and Karl Barth: A Tale of Three Anti-Semites — Part 2

Erasmus, the great Catholic humanist scholar said, “If it is Christian to hate Jews, then we are all good Christians”[1] Martin Luther and a host of medieval and modern Protestant scholars would agree.

Just ask Martin Niemoeller.

But wait a minute . . . wasn’t he the person who famously said:

  • First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak ...
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Categories: American Jewish Issues, Anti-Semitism, biblical theology, Contrarian wisdom, Current Events, ethics, good and evil, Holocaust Related Issues, Interfaith Dialogue

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Niemöller and Karl Barth: A Tale of Three Anti-Semites

 

Jesus once said:

  • · “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit. Learn More

Categories: American Jewish Issues, Anti-Semitism, Bible, Contrarian wisdom, Current Events, good and evil, Holocaust Related Issues, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish and Jungian ideas

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