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Chief Rabbi Benjamin Elton: the silence about deep-seated prejudice towards the Jews is a meeting of medieval and modern attitudes.

Anti-Jewish attitudes are ‘baked into the Western inheritance’

Many of us are advocates for much of what the West has brought to the world, but the portion of its foundations that are anti-Jewish and antisemitic have to be removed and replaced, warns Rabbi Benjamin Elton.

December 2024

A nativity scene in the Vatican featured the baby Jesus lying on a keffiyeh.

Churches sowed the seeds of antisemitism but have lost control of field in post-Christian age

The shift in Christian teaching can have a limited effect when the worst prejudices come from the radical, secular left.

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