By Kelleigh Nelson
The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews. Rabbi Jonathan Sachs
After the horrifying Hamas atrocities, I was disgusted with the moral relativism and clear antisemitism being displayed around the world in so many of our institutions, particularly the media, elite academia, the UN, and tragically in the US House of Representatives. Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter John Ondrasik
If I am to understand that you are inquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great grandfather came to England from Germany in the Eighteenth Century…. of impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride… I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully, J.R.R. Tolkien. This was written in a letter to his British publisher, Stanley Unwin, refusing to work with the German publishing house.
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