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🗓️ 16 May 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody I'm Dennis Prager and this is the Fireside Chat, number 341. |
0:08.0 | A very serious opening thought, but first I want to remind you that all the fireside chats are |
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0:47.8 | Well, I have a very serious topic today. |
0:52.2 | It's the subject of my column this week. |
0:55.0 | So let me give you a little background. |
0:58.0 | The most famous libel, |
1:02.0 | libel, I hope I don't have to define, but in case I do, is a deliberate lie about |
1:11.2 | a person or a group. |
1:15.0 | And the most famous libel is called the blood libel. |
1:20.0 | For centuries, in various communities in medieval Europe, there were Christians, |
1:28.4 | obviously not all Christians, but many and it caused horrible suffering for Jews over the course of centuries. |
1:37.6 | Jews were accused of taking a Christian child, slaughtering the child, and using the child's blood to bake |
1:48.3 | mataa. |
1:50.7 | Now the staggering nature of the absurdity of it and I wish it would just absurd but it led to |
2:00.0 | Jews being burned alive all of of British Jewry, excuse me, English Jewry was expelled from |
2:06.1 | England. I think it was the 13th century. And this continued for centuries. So first you have to know how absurd it is, as I use the word absurd. |
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