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It's Yom Kippur, the Jewish High Holiday where we're supposed to be atoning for our sins, and uber-conservative Jewish columnist Mona Charen is taking this opportunity to be completely hateful. Charen is responding to an article in the New York Times about "The Great Schlep," Sarah Silverman's viral video which tries to get young Jews to convince their Floridian grandparents to vote for Obama. I will not fight Charen over the beginning of her essay. She is offended by what she sees as Silverman's "antisemitism" (saying Jews have big noses, etc.). While I think Silverman is hilarious and satirical, Charen and others are welcome to find Sarah's humor offensive. That's opinion. What upsets me deeply, however, is that Charen distorts Silverman's words, calls her "not a Jew," and then claims that Jews like Silverman are "substituting liberal politics for religion." More »
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