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Superbowl, Antisemitism & stereotypes

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Rabbi Shay Tahan

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[music] Shalom. This year commercial of the Super Bowl was about combating [music] anti-semitism. It shows a young Jewish teenager [music] walking down the hallway of a public school while two bullies shove into him from both sides. He see [music] then you see people kids giggling behind him at his expense. When he reach his locker and opens it, [music] he takes off his backpack and he sees a sticky note on it saying the words 32 Jew. As you see him being puzzled, a young [music] black boy comes to him and places a blank blue sticky note on [music] top of the offensive one. He tells him that he knows how it feels. When the when David turns around [music] and wants to confront those that put it, he told him that don't worry about it. They're not worth it. They shake hand and they walk. Although combating

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  1. 0:02[music] Shalom. This year commercial of the Super Bowl was about combating [music] anti-semitism. It shows…
  2. 0:32and opens it, [music] he takes off his backpack and he sees a sticky note on…
  3. 1:04anti-semitism is praiseworthy and necessary, I think this missed the point. Whenever a Jewish boy is…
  4. 1:36sympathy from a god. [music] On the contrary, we should look strong. We should look successful…
  5. 2:07with the [music] bricks in order to sympathize with am with the suffering kadosh does sympathize…
  6. 2:37whenever Jewish people show to the world the things that [music] the Nazis have done to…

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