Mr. Hegseth’s remarks invoke an ancient anti-Jewish trope: the caricature of the first-century Pharisees as law-obsessed, murderous enemies of Jesus.
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Separating the art from the artist? Broadway’s ‘Giant’ wrestles with Roald Dahl’s antisemitism
The tragedy of Dahl’s antisemitism isn’t that it colored his art but that it clouded his vision and tainted his outrage.
Posted inShort Take
The flaws of Christian Zionism
Using biblical texts formulated millennia ago to justify the dispossession of the Palestinian people today is problematic for many reasons.
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Catholic member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission sparks tense exchange over antisemitism and Israel
Commissioner Carrie Prejean Boller, a former Miss California USA and a Catholic, began a tense exchange with witnesses by asking if “speaking out about what many Americans view as a genocide in Gaza should be treated as antisemitic?”
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Antisemitism is bad politics—and even worse Christianity
Mr. Vance has thus far rejected the idea of expelling antisemitic elements from MAGA. But successful political coalitions must sometimes draw bright red lines.
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After Bondi Beach: Anti-Semitism is a threat to Australia’s diverse democracy
The defining feature of contemporary antisemitism in Australia is that almost no one believes they are engaging in it. Ours is an antisemitism without antisemites.
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Review: Slavery and American Jewish history
The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be absent the contributions of Abraham’s stock. Owing to this and all the discredited drivel about the American slave trade’s supposed Jewish hub, a fresh, thoughtful treatment of Jews and America’s original […]
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‘Nobody Wants This’ is no ordinary rom-com. It’s a study in what it means to be faithful.
While the show’s depiction of religion isn’t exactly robust, it is sincere, and—just as importantly—belief is never the punchline.
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Pope Leo condemns antisemitism and vows to fight it as tensions rise over Israel’s war in Gaza
At a time of rising antisemitism stemming from Israel’s war, Leo adopted as his own the Vatican’s official position abhorring antisemitism as he marked the 60th anniversary of a landmark Vatican document that revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with Jews.
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An ongoing reckoning with anti-Semitism: 60 years since ‘Nostra Aetate’
60 years ago next week, “Nostra Aetate” was promulgated, marking a definitive change in the church’s approach toward the Jewish people and its own history.