…Community Views Publisher's Notebook Whatever Form It Takes, Intolerance Hurts Questioning Shouldn't End After The Seder JOE KORT SPEC AL TO THE JEW SH NEWS ARTHUR M. HORWITZ PUBLISHER Anti-Semitism. Being Jewish, I knew of the con- cept growing up but never actual- ly suffered from direct acts of it. I knew epithets like "Jew boy," "kike," and "Jew them down" existed but never had any of these words or phras- es directed to me personall...…
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