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HERBERT LEVINE/JTA

We may not yet realize it, but we need a new story of Hanukkah, lest we lose the next Jewish generation to disillusionment with Jewish power and might. I grew up in the generation that delighted in Israel’s victory in the…
Derryck Green
December 10, 2025
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Anti-Semitism Goes to School

“I never dreamed that it could come to this!” In February, a Jewish college student was hospitalized after being punched in the face at a pro-Palestinian demonstration on a campus in upstate New York. His family has insisted on maintaining…
Derryck Green
August 11, 2025
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The Weak and the Strong

14 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the…
Derryck Green
July 14, 2025
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore…
Derryck Green
July 14, 2025
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Helping Israel against Iran

Should the U.S. directly assist Israel’s destruction of Iran’s nuclear weapons program? The short answer is, to my mind, as a Christian realist, yes, but not with unqualified enthusiasm. Christian Realism never embraces war enthusiastically, only from grim necessity, hopefully…
Derryck Green
June 20, 2025