Antisemitism

Explore the ifs and whys of Anti-Semitism with Rabbi Kaplan and Dr. Dov Dumbroff as they journey back in time and explore the “mind of an anti-semite”.

Jews have always been called the "chosen people," because that's how we are described in the Bible. But what does it mean to be "chosen"? Chosen for what? How did we get to be chosen? Why did G-d have to choose a people?

Hasn't our being the "Chosen People" caused anti-semitism than respect? Rabbi Friedman puts the notion of being chosen into perspective by explaining the existence of a heavenly people on earth.

There is nothing superfluous in G-d's world. So what is the purpose of an antisemite? Just that--to remind Jews that they are Jewish!

How many Jewish Rothschilds are left in the world? G-d knows we could have used them...

Assimilation is when non-Jews love us so much they want to marry us. Anti-Semitism is when non-Jews hate us so much they want to kill us. Why can't we, for once, think about what we think of ourselves?

Is hate based on reason or is there a hate behind the reason? A look at Esau’s hatred for Jacob.

When something consistently reoccurs in our world--a particular weather pattern, a bottle-nosed dolphin migrating habit, a quirk of human behavior--we call it "nature." Apparently, the Jews-in-the-news phenomenon is a force of nature...

The age-old struggle between Jew and Jew-hater is a misnomer. It's not us they hate

Anti-Semitism -- our fear of this scourge is deeply ingrained in our psyche. But how real is the threat?