A word of Latin origin (from "gens"; "gentilis"), designating a people not Jewish, commonly applied to non-Jews.
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We have been strangers in so many lands over the millennia.
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By Neal Schindler The conservative website Campus Reform recently reported that Project Veritas, an equally conservative undercover investigative operation, exposed instances of “[p]olitical correctness and cultural sensitivity run amok” at two liberal arts college campuses. Here’s the gist: Administrators at Vassar College agreed to personally shred a pocket Constitution after …
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Violence is a more complex social phenomenon than basic cause-effect theories can express.
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Several bursts of exposure to both conservative and liberal media in the last week have demonstrated clearly that homophobia and transphobia are far from vanquished.
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There are reasons Judaism seems like a religion first and foremost in the minds of many, if not most, non-Jews.
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