Jerry Grafstein
JNS, July 10, 2024
“My guide to seeking truth today is best summed up by Maimonides: “This I accept as trustworthy because of tradition, this because of sense-perception and this on the grounds of reason.”
Is the history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire unfolding before our eyes in all Western democracies? Are the barbarians within and without our gates? All the symptoms and signs are evident and in full view. Let the facts speak. Any student of ancient, medieval or modern history will see the obvious decay in all Western institutions across the world.
Canada is a nation of immigrants. After World War II the West was inundated with waves of immigrants fleeing because their homelands had not provided safe physical, economic or living space to raise their families—the most intense form of physical need.
An extreme sliver of these immigrants, rather than being transformed by Western ideas of the “Enlightenment.” brought extremist views from their troubled homelands. Modern “pogroms” in Western institutions are now instigated by rabble-rousers and abetted by teachers lacking historical perspectives and replete with ancient antisemitic tropes. Synagogues and Jewish schools are now routinely vandalized. Jewish students are ostracized and bullied in high school and university classrooms, campuses and libraries. Why is this state of affairs permitted throughout Western democracies? . … [To read the full article, click here]
