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Forthcoming Book by Jewish Historian Reported to Accept Blood Libel as True
Repeating the blood libel, the accusation that Jews used human blood in religious rituals and performed human sacrifice, was a crime in Poland and Lithuania in the Middle Ages; while, in most of...
View ArticleThe Alarming Jewish Fantasy Gap
Karen has forwarded to me a link to an article by Michael Weingrad undertaking a nerdworthy analysis of the lack of significant Jewish contribution to the Tolkienian fantasy genre. [I]f Christianity...
View ArticleA Purim Sermon
Michelangelo, The Punishment of Haman, 1508-1512, Sistine Chapel. Dan Greenfield yesterday published a special Purim essay which repays reading even by gentiles. Purim began when a narrow-minded...
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