Do Jews Have Horns? - Parshat Vayikra

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

the jewish people have had few advocates and friends as dear and as staunch as senator daniel inouye senator inui served as a united states senator from hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012 he was a highly decorated world war ii veteran and one of the most powerful democrats in washington asked why he became such a strong supporter of the jewish people he told of his wartime recuperation from battle wounds in a hospital in italy in the wounds in a hospital in italy in the next bed there was a jewish soldier who had also been badly wounded inui had never known jews in his native hawaii and he'd been taught that as a child that jews had horns well when they removed the bandages from this jewish serviceman's head no horns were visible the two became friends and from this jewish servicemen he knew he learned of the centuries-old hatred and persecution of the jews as a first generation japanese american whose family had been discriminated whose family had been discriminated against this struck a strong cold with inui and when he recovered he set out to find out why it was that the jews had suffered so much his research led him to become a strong supporter of many jewish causes he arranged for large american government funds for israeli defense and also for religious institutions so great was his identification with the jewish people at one point he considered converting when asked why he didn't convert he replied that he felt he could do more for the jewish people as a non-jew than

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