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A Yom Kippur Prayer For Jews who are "Proud to be Ashamed to Be Jews"
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/856/proud-to-be-ashamed-to-be-jews
Excerpt: Why Israel? Why the Jews? Why are so many presumably "civilized" people, "good" people, educated people, so eager to join the Jew-hating, death-eating barbarians–century after century, country after country? In the Book of Esther, set in ancient Persia, Haman, the Viceroy, plots the genocidal extermination of the Persian Jews. He tells the King that "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed in all the provinces of your realm. Their laws are different from every other group and they do not observe the King's laws. Therefore, it is not befitting the King to tolerate them." Jews are everywhere, Jews are "different," Jews hold themselves apart, they have dual loyalties, or no loyalty to the realm, only to God. Here we have it, the universal accusation and the justification for anti-Semitic persecution. Luckily, the King fancies the very Jewish Esther, takes her into his harem, "chooses" her as his beloved—and through her efforts (and that of the entire Jewish community), Esther saves the Jews. And King Achashverosh kills Haman and his entire family instead. Read the complete original version of this item... | |||||
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