| I?m tired of Jewish leaders groveling at the feet of an institution directly responsible for the murder of one-half of all Jews born between the fall of Jerusalem and today. As if the pope deciding to commence his trip to Jerusalem despite offending Israel and the Diaspora is a favor to us. To say that the Vatican owes the Jews for its two millennia persecution culminating most recently, but not necessarily finally, in Shoah is addressed neither by Christendom, religion or secular, nor by ourselves. So long as contempt trumps contrition, the cancer of hate will ever remain at the heart of Christianity and its secular social order. And Jews choosing to live in Diaspora will, according to that German precedent of a single grandparent, be at the same risk as were our relatives who died in the ovens. |
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