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Racializing the news<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s unseasonably cold at my house today, too.<\/a>  It snowed this morning, a little, very unusual for this time of the year.<\/p>\n

Why Israel Can’t Rely on American Jewish “Leaders”<\/a><\/p>\n

This is what passes for “leadership” in American Jewry. A kabuki dance is orchestrated by an Obama fan to gather other Obama fans to air the mildest criticism and to avoid challenging the factual representations of an administration that is the most hostile to the Jewish state in history. As one Israeli hand who definitely isn’t going to be invited to any meetings with this president put it: “They may be fine rabbis, but they are out of their league here.” And by not directly and strongly taking on the president, they are, in fact, enabling the president’s anti-Israel stance. It is, come to think of it, more than an embarrassment; it is an egregious misuse of their status and it is every bit as dangerous as the quietude of American Jews in the 1930s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed.<\/p>\n

Read Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy<\/a> first, then read The Cost of Discipleship<\/a>… again, if you’ve read it before, through the lens of knowing more about Bonhoeffer.<\/p>\n

Apple removes app showing “violent and hateful passages from The Qur’an”; anti-Bible, anti-Christian app still on sale <\/a><\/p>\n

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