Comments by "Sam Aronow" (@SamAronow) on "ReligionForBreakfast" channel.

  1. Thank you! Andrew seems to conflate Solomonic Israelitism with Beta Israel origins, when in fact Solomonic Israelitism emerged as a reaction against the Ethiopian Jewish community.
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  2. The Antonia fortress was further north, on top of what is now the Via Dolorosa. We know the Temple was built over the Foundation Stone because after it was destroyed, the Katz would annoint it with oil on each Tisha B'Av.
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  3. You know Israeli academics are super left-leaning, right?
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  4.  @WBWhiting  And why move it now, since it's become a tourist attraction in itself?
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  5. Thanks, I hate it. Why can't a job just be a job? You can take pride in it, but I won't want it interfering with my friends or family or home or beliefs. At what point does this cross a line into religious workplace discrimination? Because some of the rhetoric that Dr. Chen describes seems to be approaching that.
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  6. I'm way late to this, but you'll be interested to know that "Salvatore" is actually a historically common name for Jewish men in Italy because it's the literal translation of their Hebrew name Yeshua; such as the rabbi Salvatore Segre and his great-great-grandson, WWI General Roberto Salvatore Segre.
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  7. Yeah, this story sounds like the 19th century version of a Chick Tract, minus the anti-Catholic stuff.
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  8. Horus is an Egyptian god with the name of a man who owns either a railroad or an ice cream parlor.
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