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The Shomer: Vandals Strike Denver High School With Antisemitic, Racist, Homophobic Messages; Break Windows at Denver Academy of Torah
“I hate Jews/why do the big nosed rats boss us around”
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The Shomer: Yet Another GOP Leader Invokes Holocaust For Anti-Vax Hysteria
I’m not sure how we can be any clearer about this. We’ve said it a million times at this point, and yet so many of the Trumpublican Right seem utterly incapable of getting it — looking at you Gigi Gaskins, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and of course our own Lauren Boebert, to name a few.
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The Shomer: The Stabbing Was Bad Enough. The Indifference is What’s Going to Kill Us.
On July 1, Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was minding his own business outside of a Jewish school in Brighton, Mass. A man walked up to him, pointed a gun at him, and demanded he open his van, ostensibly to kidnap him. Then the man pulled out a knife and started stabbing the Rabbi — eight times — as the Rabbi attempted to flee to a park across the street.
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The Shomer: Arizona State Senator Touts Appearance on Antisemitic Network
“People judge you by the company you keep.”
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The Shomer: Take That Badge Off, Now.
It was the second week of February in 1994. I was in my freshman year of college, and most of my closest friends worked at the theatre in Tamarac Square in Southeast Denver. Tombstone was still running, and just a week prior, Schindler’s List was released. I popped in to meet a buddy who was finishing his shift. What I saw when I walked through the door stopped me cold in my tracks.
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The Shomer: Two Jews, Three Opinions…
…An old joke, but it’s actually an effective summary of the nature of Halachic law. The underlying theme here is the idea that everything is truly relative; that nuance, detail and context are crucial to understanding and resolving conflict.
News
The Shomer: Denver Chiropractor Exposed As Central QAnon Conspirator
“He used to work out at my gym. Dude is off his rockers.”
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The Shomer: Tone-Deaf Jefferson County Republicans Use Holocaust Photo as Anti-Vaccine Propaganda
The Jefferson County Republican Party demonstrated a serious lack of respect for their Jewish constituents and the historical relevance of the Holocaust in a highly insensitive Facebook post last week.
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The Shomer to Kentucky Libertarians: Stop it.
I don’t know how to say this with any more clarity: The Holocaust is not a rhetorical device.