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The Pittsburgh Synagogue, Anti-Semitism And Trump
Townhall ^ | 10/30/2018 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 10/30/2018 12:00:39 AM PDT by goldstategop

As a Jew who attends synagogue every Shabbat, and as an advocate for the carrying of concealed weapons, I fervently pray we will not need armed guards at American synagogues. America's uniqueness has been exemplified by the fact that Jews do not need armed guards in their synagogues.

May it always be so.

Even if you don't love Jews -- if you only love America -- you need to fight anti-Semites. As the Jews go, so goes the fate of the nation in which they live.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; dennisprager; massacre; pennsylvania; pittsburgh; prager; shooting; synagogueshooting; townhall; treeoflife; trump
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To: caww
The Jews are kidding themselves if they think they don’t need armed guards

Most Synagogues have had security for two to three decades. Every entrance, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no. Even large, affluent congregations usually have a financial problem with that. As to your opinion that Jews are dull, it's just that, your opinion.

21 posted on 10/30/2018 5:52:06 AM PDT by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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To: a fool in paradise

Did you know in the Seattle attack the jury hung in the first trial, he would have walked. While waiting for his second trial moron not only confessed but justified it to his mom and implied he’d do it again. Dummy didn’t realize jail visitor conversations could be recorded. As to the first jury, in the face of overwhelming evidence of premeditation, I just don’t know.


22 posted on 10/30/2018 5:56:59 AM PDT by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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23 posted on 10/30/2018 5:57:54 AM PDT by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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To: SJackson

I didn’t know the particulars of the prosecution/conviction, just the original incident itself.


24 posted on 10/30/2018 6:28:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: caww

Jews need to spend a little time reading the book of Esther. They might find a 2nd Amendment kind of surprize ending.


25 posted on 10/30/2018 6:42:06 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: goldstategop

The fate of the United States depends on how it treats its White (for now) majority. A United States of America without White people (or where they are a minority) is Latin America.

A nation’s faith does not depend on how it treats Jews; Jewish fate depends on how the majority feel about them. The non-White (soon to be) majority does not particularly care about (or care for) Jews. They do not care about Israel. They feel no guilt over the Holocaust, pogroms, or any other such events. The Jews who support displacement level immigration, who attack White nationalists, who compare Trump to Hitler and ordinary Trump supporters to Nazis might want to consider their own well being. If walls and deportation of migrants (’infiltrators’ as described there) are good for Israel perhaps they are good for the other nations that Jews reside in.


26 posted on 10/30/2018 7:48:46 AM PDT by evilC
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To: caww

Odious replacement theology.


27 posted on 10/30/2018 8:17:51 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy UP!)
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To: goldstategop

Laws are useless they’re enforced......otherwise they’re just paper and ink.... And therein is the problem of why evil often appears to prevail over good.

The guy who shot all those people was obsessing and full of hate.....probably because of the lifestyle he lived....he chose his target to unload that hate on and fed it daily.

Hatred at the depth he has will always find an outlet to feed itself....he could have chosen any assortment of nationalities or religious organizations to unload his rage on....the fact is he wanted to kill people....and that’s the it of it.


28 posted on 10/30/2018 8:48:24 AM PDT by caww
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To: wastoute

It’s always important to note ‘who’ Jesus was speaking to.....in your references it was against the ‘Jewish leadership’...not the Jewish nation body. The people He preached to and taught.

Also recall that Ezekiel cried out asking God, “Ah, Lord God! Will You make a complete end of the remnant of Israel?” (Ezekiel 11:12)....... God responded by ‘promising’ a day of restoration, even though they are judged, they will be restored, God will bring them back to the land and put a “New Spirit in them”, they will be given a “heart of flesh”, they will then be “my people”.

Even though the events seem bleak at times for the nation, God is not done with Israel, they will be restored.


29 posted on 10/30/2018 9:00:42 AM PDT by caww
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To: SJackson

The reference to “dullness’ is intended for those who don’t think their Synagogues need protection in Pittsburgh...they do.

I live near Pittsburgh and very familiar with Squirrel Hill and the Synagogue since family lived there quite awhile...it’s all thae favorable things you hear about it now....But anyone could walk in there at any time outside of special high events....and this Synagogue is quite an active one at pretty much any time.


30 posted on 10/30/2018 9:13:20 AM PDT by caww
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To: super7man

Their history throughout the Bible should be clear about protecting themselves. So should common sense in the world today.

Heck where I live is about as secure as any but that does not stop crime...it still happens. However it was not until the last few years I began carrying protection for myself when out and about. Heck malls aren’t safe anymore! Anywhere where groups of people gather can be a target today for all the nutcases out there that sit behind computers feeding their obsessions and rage.


31 posted on 10/30/2018 9:21:10 AM PDT by caww
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To: cowboyusa

Sounds that way doesn’t it. It needs to be squished when it raises it’s ugly head. I’m not Jewish but I do understand Gods relationship to Israel and it’s people even when they might not, and I will always defend that.

‘Thus says the Lord GOD:... “Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.”


32 posted on 10/30/2018 9:32:30 AM PDT by caww
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To: wastoute

White Priviledge/Nationalism... is the new buzz word to silence anyone who is not of color....it means shut up because you are not a member of a minority group....or... reverse racisim of the highest order.


33 posted on 10/30/2018 11:14:20 AM PDT by caww
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To: wastoute

White Priviledge/Nationalism... is the new buzz word to silence anyone who is not of color....it means shut up because you are not a member of a minority group....or... reverse racisim of the highest order.


34 posted on 10/30/2018 11:14:20 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww
You need to cool your jets....you’d have no place to speak at all if it were’t for the Jewish people period. Jesus is Jewish so you need to get your head on straight about how HE sees His people....

Let's see who Jesus says are "his people".

Here in Matthew 21 Jesus prophesies the explusion from the Kingdom of God the Christ-rejecting Jew:

42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? 43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. (Matthew 21:42-43)

Peter, after the establishment of the New Covenant in Christ's blood, confirms this:

6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. (1 Peter 2:6-10)

The same imagery -- the chief corner stone being Christ who is also the rock of offense and stumblying to the disobedient.

The people of God are believers, not unbelievers.

God has opened the gospel to all and stands ready to receive all who believe.

11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:11-13)

35 posted on 10/30/2018 12:44:27 PM PDT by nonsporting (Investigate Ford and her legal team)
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To: caww
Just so you know....science and genetic testing today prove The vast majority of Jews today can be traced genetically back to the Levant area.

Yeah, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz has American Indian genetic material (as I do), but that doesn't make her (or me) an Indian. I'm sure I have Jewish genetic material, but that doesn't make me a member of any one (or more) tribe. Jesus explained in John Chapter 8 that just because some Jews were descendants of Abraham that did not make them "children". Paul in Romans 9 explains this at length.

As I indicated in my previous post, Ephesians Chapter 2 has something remarkable to say about who is a citizen of the commonwealth of Israel. I give it in its entirety.

11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Faithful Old and New Covenant believers are fellowcitizens of the commonwealth of Israel. The centrality of Jesus is remarkable and essential. We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus himself the chief corner stone.

36 posted on 10/30/2018 1:42:23 PM PDT by nonsporting (Investigate Ford and her legal team)
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To: nonsporting

You made yourself know in your former post.....am really not interested in replying further to a repeat performance.


37 posted on 10/30/2018 3:53:27 PM PDT by caww
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To: nonsporting

The ‘eternal’ promises that God made to the nation Israel that Israel will repent and acknowledge Christ as their Savior, that they will serve God, and they will be protected by God and this — exactly as Revelation says they will -

You’d be wise to remember this....


38 posted on 10/30/2018 4:17:32 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Hey, you callin’ me a nutcase? ;o)


39 posted on 10/30/2018 9:09:00 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: evilC

most Jews don’t think in terms of Jewish interest. They emote as liberals.


40 posted on 11/02/2018 10:58:19 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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