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The Forever Jews

"Their [the Jews] destiny is too imbued with the “metaphysical” to be explained either by material or positive historical terms… Its survival is a mysterious and wonderful phenomenon demonstrating that the life of this people is governed by special predetermination… The survival of the Jews, their resistance to destruction, their endurance under absolutely peculiar conditions and the fateful role played by them in history; all these point to the particular and mysterious foundations of their destiny…"

~ Nicholai Berdyaev 

 I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation…They are the most glorious nation to ever inhabit this earth…They have given religion to three quarters of the Globe and have influenced the affairs of Mankind, more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.   ~ John Adams



This is your heritage.

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