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“gender discount”

“We are fighting good versus evil, dark versus light,” she said, declaring that she was rising up like Queen Esther, the biblical heroine who saved her people from death.

“We are tired of being made out to be these horrible people,” she said, acknowledging there was some violence but insisting on the falsehood that Antifa was behind it.

As Charles Taylor puts it, in modernity we remade the human person into a “buffered self,” protected and autonomous and independent, free to determine our own good and pursue our own “authentic” path.

Here was a shameless attempt to libel the Jewish State, the only country in the Middle East with a growing, thriving Christian community.

of ethnic cleansing, brutal militarism, racism of several stripes, and even “pinkwashing”—exploiting its liberal policy toward lesbians and gays to

the future of Jewish life is dependent on Jews—not just rabbis—taking hold of the rich, challenging, surprising, and inspiring heritage that makes up our texts and traditions.

But what is their definition of the oppressed? It is not the economically oppressed that they have come to defend but the culturally oppressed.