Judaism Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University. Mon, 06 May 2024 23:38:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Random Photos https://www.scottbradford.us/2014/03/15/random-photos-5/ Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:55:42 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=13226 So here I am, returning from yet another unplanned Off on a Tangent hiatus . . . which, of course, happened right after I said I would be trying to be more active on the site in 2014. Go figure. Well, during that time (and even for a while before), I’ve still been thinking, following the news, snapping photos, and […]

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]]> The Ugly Face of Antisemitism https://www.scottbradford.us/2011/03/18/the-ugly-face-of-antisemitism/ Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:42:04 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=6468 Human society has come a long way in the last hundred years, but every once in a while somebody comes out and demonstrates just how far we have yet to go. Few things are more illustrative of this fact than the remaining vestiges of antisemitism that exist out there in the world. It is most obvious in […]

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]]> Why the Jews? https://www.scottbradford.us/2009/06/11/why-the-jews/ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:30:54 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=2911 Michael Gerson wrote a great piece for the Washington Post with a simple, direct title: “Why the Jews?” The Jewish people have been subject to incredible persecution and abuse for thousands of years, including the abject evil of the Holocaust at the hands of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany during World War II. Yesterday, a white […]

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]]> Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam? https://www.scottbradford.us/2009/06/09/are-judaism-and-christianity-as-violent-as-islam/ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:43:34 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=2904 Raymond Ibrahim, associate director of the Middle East Forum and author of The Al Qaeda Reader, writes an incredibly detailed, accurate piece in Middle East Quarterly comparing the history of violence within and between the three major Abrahamic religions. The core question is the title of the piece: Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as […]

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]]> Speaking of National Sovereignty . . . https://www.scottbradford.us/2009/04/19/speaking-of-national-sovereignty/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:48:22 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=2649 As I promised when Barack Obama (D) was elected President of the United States, I will oppose him when he is wrong and support him when he is right. Today, Obama did something 100 percent right: he announced that the United States will not participate in the United Nations’ Durban II conference. Formally known as […]

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]]> One Woman’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust https://www.scottbradford.us/2009/03/14/one-womans-story-of-surviving-the-holocaust/ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:36:37 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=2527 We can’t forget World War II. I have long believed, and still believe today, that World War II was the moment where it was all on the line. We could have lost civilized, free society entirely to fascism and totalitarianism. It was the turning point, and it could easily have gone the other way had […]

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]]> Happy Passover; Life; Cars https://www.scottbradford.us/2008/04/19/happy-passover-life-cars/ Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:08:26 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=1119 First off, I want to take a moment to wish all my Jewish friends and the greater, worldwide Jewish community a happy, safe Passover. I encourage all my non-Jewish friends—especially Christians, who share much of the Jewish religious heritage—to read up on what Passover is all about and take this as an opportunity to learn […]

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]]> Roger Waters and Reading Progress https://www.scottbradford.us/2006/10/04/roger-waters-and-reading-progress/ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:44:32 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/2006/10/04/roger-waters-and-reading-progress/ I know, I know. I said I’d try to get back into the habit of more-regular postings, and I didn’t do it. I’m a bad, bad webmaster (lol). In all seriousness, things have been pretty busy but things have also been pretty good. I was on a high for about a week after seeing Roger […]

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]]> Religious & Political Reading Progress https://www.scottbradford.us/2006/07/21/religious-political-reading-progress/ Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:42:24 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/2006/07/21/religious-political-reading-progress/ Well, I’ve reached a fairly major breaking point in my religious research reading: I have finished reading the Hebrew Bible (‘Old Testament’ to us Christian types). There is a lot of crazy stuff in there—brutal wars, murder, incest, famine, pestilence, and slavery. Yet there is an underlying theme that God really loves us, even though […]

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]]> Sick, but Well-Read! https://www.scottbradford.us/2006/04/08/sick-but-well-read/ Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:39:12 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/2006/04/08/sick-but-well-read/ So I’ve been sick. I got sick on April Fools Day (no direct connection to the pink and purple site that I’m aware of) and have basically remained sick. It started one week ago as a fever and muscle aches which continued on-and-off until Monday, at which point it transitioned into a plain-old cold. I’m […]

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