Out of Step Jew on change

Out of Step Jew reports on a "post-tephilla talk" On Change:

"only after Salladin defeated the Crusader state in the Holy Land did Ashkenazi Jewry even mention the Crusader successes. But it was these successes that led to the fear of letting Jewish children become Christianized and so threatened the theological future of Judaism that Jewish mothers and fathers killed their children rather than let them fall into the hands of those who would convert and raise them as Christians."

In Boston, one can�t find this level of discussion in "post-tephilla talk", "before-tephilla talk" or even "middle of-tephilla talk". In fact somebody challenged my statements regarding Rav Soloveitchik legacy in Boston. Whatever legacy it is, it is not one of thinking community where Jewish though struggles or thrives. But then again, witness a thinking Jew in Kfar Saba, hopelessly out of step...

A shocking experience for a Jew to observe Christian conquest of the Temple Mount. And now we find ourselves together with Christians facing the Saladin descendants, how tragically ironic.
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