THE HORSE MANURE:
"Yom Kippur, which begins next Friday night and ends Saturday night, is the Jewish Day of Atonement, the culmination of 10 days of contemplation, self-renewal and
rededication to the path of righteousness.”
-Mark Oppenheimer, New York Times, Sept. 30.
THE TRUTH:
Yom Kippur is a despicable
liars' festival wherein
promises and oaths to be made in the coming year are nullified in advance, during the '
Kol Nidrei' rite. Is it the “path of righteousness” to cut a deal with God to be absolved for
future perjury and
contracts one intends to break in the coming year? Yom Kippur’s
Kol Nidrei is decidedly unrighteous. So why the coverup? The journalistic mission of the
New York Times is to shield Judaism from exposure, not to report the ugly truth about it. The
yiddishkeit at the
Times is too strong to allow the staff to report on Judaism the way the
Times harshly scrutinizes Roman Catholicism and Islam. This is the
halacha of the
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch and
Mishnah Berurah, as implemented by the
New York Times: one standard for exalted Zionists and another for the debased
goyim.
-Michael Hoffman
Hoffman is the author of the books Judaism Discovered and Judaism Strange Gods (the latter is forthcoming in December from Independent History and Research)
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