In his Utah Policy newsletter, Deseret News columnist points out that the Mitt Romney presidential campaign has brought the Church into the national spotlight and asks whether the Church should respond to the increased attacks. “Romney obviously will have to deal with these matters forthrightly and aggressively…but what about the LDS Church?” He answers his own question by giving two suggestions to...
Today the Wall Street Journal has an article entitled Anti-Semitism: Good for the Jews? that has interesting parallels to Mormonism. Mr. Volokh makes the following points:
Modest amounts of anti-Semitic speech and unfair criticism of Israel, it seems to me, can strengthen American Jews’ self-identity as Jews, and thus indirectly both support the preservation of the American Jewish community as a community, and...
