Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security announced $94 million in federal grants to over 500 Jewish-based organizations across the United States.

I recently sat down with Rabbi Sanford Akselrad from Congregation Ner Tamid, who told me the temple spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on security.

"The fight against hate against the Jews would morph yet again, um, so when someone says that they are, they, they love Jews but they, but they hate Israel and you get a little deeper, what do they mean by that… and usually when they go into the territory not of being critical of Israel which is fair game. But they say Israel has no right to exist at all now… we get into the area of antisemitism," Akselrad said.

More grants are expected in the coming months.

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    Notice it’s to protect Jewish organizations, not Jewish people.

    Apparently it is now antisemitic to speak out against an organization you disagree with, even ones that bear a strong resemblance to what would otherwise be labeled a terrorist organization.

    The problem of course is that there ARE antisemites out there mixed in with all the people upset with the US and Israeli governments.

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      Its antisemitic to not fund organizations that pay for settler terrorism in the west bank actually

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    greedy zionist filth dont desevre more money. geneciders desevre to be culled, death to the idf and isreal. filthy nazi scum

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    This is the type of shit that leads to pogroms and lies like “The Elders of Zion.”

    Benefits Netanyahu short term. Hurts Jews long term.

    Israel has gone out of its way to eliminate sympathy towards Jewish survivors of the holocaust.

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    No religious body should ever receive federal money for anything short of a natural disaster to repair their assets. Jews, Baptists, Muslims, Buddhists, etc… they’re all the same in my eyes, and should be in the eyes of the government. They are all fucking loony toons that believe in ghosts, and that shit has no place in law and government. Let them fail for their beliefs or grow up and join and evolve with society.

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      They like a very particular kind of Jewish person the same way they like a very particular kind of Christian. That being hardcore conservatives who use religious doctrine as a cover for bigoted dog whistling and nothing more.