Judaism

We’re your friends

We’re your friends

We’re your friends, we’re part of the community In his Utah Policy newsletter (link now dead), Deseret News columnist LaVarr Webb 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...

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Anti-Mormonism: Good for Mormons?

Anti-Mormonism: Good for Mormons?

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...

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