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Them vs. Us

Parshat Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4-36:43)

By Rabbi Dov Fischer

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/torah_portion/article/them_vs_us_20081210/

Parshat Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4-36:43) Certainly, ours is a history of being targeted by "them" for no reason other than our being "us." The Christian, en route to liberate the Holy Land from the infidel Muslim Saracens, stopped along watering holes throughout Europe to massacre whole Jewish bystander communities.

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