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I don't agree with a LOT of what Jewish Currents says but you can judge me for having remained on their mailing list after I signed up for one virtual event on the Soviet Jewry movement 50 years later.

I know that Ruth Wisse has said that it is understudied why Jews turned to Communism which then proceeded to turn on everything Jewish. But the kind of socialism that the founding Israeli politicians had and the New Deal liberalism that most American Jews have has a lot of room for a Jewish religious sense of there being a floor of decency that people cannot fall under. We just had a shmita year to memorialize this concept.

Kanye is not talking socialism. Kanye is talking perverted Black conservatism from what I was told that he said--"why can't Black people have our own media outlets that we control" and from how he has clearly come under the influence of Candace Owens.

(I know the OU has made a lot of progress in their Nach Yomi program but I still have to catch up with all the learning I was supposed to do last year.)

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