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No Pro’lem

October 10, 2011
By Justin Alexander
No Pro’lem

History repeats itself. Different group, different time period. Same old story.
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Tags: bullying, children, education, featured, goyim, greenhorn, harassment, history, immigrants, prejudice, yeshiva
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Pious Encounters

January 14, 2010
By Mar Baravashi

I’m damned if I do, and damned if I don’t. But I’m more damned if I don’t, so I will. I will talk about race. And racism. And how our frum world is afflicted by it, ingrained as it is…


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Tags: bigotry, non-Jews, prejudice, racism
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