Nostra Aetate, Israel, and the Boundaries of Catholic Faith

In recent years, a rising number of voices—especially in online spaces—have attempted to discredit Nostra Aetate, the 1965 declaration of the Second Vatican Council...
1) on the Church’s relationship to non-Christian religions and, above all, to the Jewish people. Some portray it as a betrayal of tradition, others as the product of infiltration or corruption. These claims are not only historically false.
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For too many years to count and to anyone who would listen I stated the obvious. Jonathon Greenblatt destroyed the ADL because he is a partisan hack who weaponized antisemitism thereby making the word meaningless to those wrongfully accused.
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https://twitter.com/GREENESJ333/status/2020929468265529671

He is a huge part of the problem. He allowed critical race theory to be taught flipping Jewish history on its head calling us occupiers/oppressors in our own indigenous homeland. He allowed antisemitism to be taught.
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Roger Froikin wrote, "There is an ancient Chinese proverb.

A good parent gives his child "roots" and "wings".
1) One of the main reasons that the Jewish people survived and preserved their identity was because of the Torah that built these "roots", and the emphasis on learning, on education,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "It is time to solve the Pakistan problem, to correct what the British messed up.

Pakistan needs to be split into 4 nation states, each one for the majority ethnic group within its borders:
1) Pashtunistan, Punjabistan, Sindhistan, Balochistan.

How they relate to one another is for their peoples, but, minimally, this is about ethnic respect and freedom among groups and a real permanent peace with India,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "PARSHAT YITRO - A SECOND LOOK

Bat-Zion Susskind Sacks and I both wrote and published essays highlighting issues in Parshat Yitro, and afterward we discussed what we wrote.
1) We discovered that there was another, very important lesson in Yitro’s role in Torah, one that seems to be missed generally.

You see, Yitro (Jethro) was not some sophisticated man who benefitted from an expensive higher education at some elite school like Harvard or
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Zionism is Biblical, as Roger Froikin wrote, "Zionism started 4,000 years ago, not in the late 19th century, with the promise to Avraham, Yitzchaq, and Ya’acov, with Moshe (Moses) 3,400 years ago and the trek through Sinai to Eretz Yisrael.
1) Through periods of plenty and famine, exile, and conflicts, B’nei Yisrael (now referred to as Jews) looked to the Land of Israel as their homeland, promised by the Creator to a people chosen to have a special role in the history of civilization."
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"BREAKING NEWS: Pam Bondi: FBI arrests key figure in September 11-12, 2012 Benghazi terror attack: Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the FBI has arrested one of the key participants Zubayr al‑Bakoush behind the Benghazi attack.
1) According to Bondi’s announcement:

Bakoush will face a U.S. indictment that includes murder, arson, and terr0rism‑related offenses tied to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and security contractors Glen Doherty
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "LANGUE ET ASSIMILATION LINGUISTIQUE

A QUESTION FOR QUEBEC

The question of maintaining the use of French in Quebec has long been raised.
1) Two independence referendums were held in Quebec, where the main issue was to preserve language and culture in the face of what Quebecers perceive as strong pressure from English-speaking North America.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Voter ID is not sufficient—as some states, 14 of them, are issuing driver’s license IDs to illegals and non-citizens.
1) The only thing that will make a difference is if the federal government, to protect the Constitution and rule of law,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The latest tactic from the Democrats is to claim that Trump will either end elections or pervert them, and that he must be stopped to save democracy.

Ironic.
1) For 80 years, the Democrats have backed gerrymandering to the extreme (one district protecting a Black candidate in Florida stretches for 200 miles and at some points is one inch wide), and then there is Hillary Clinton’s manufactured dossier designed to slander Trump,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Ancient Measurements, the Bible, and Historical Fact

It is almost funny that the academic world has told us, and continues to tell us, that ancient measurements, like the foot in Egypt or
1) the cubit in areas from the Middle East to India, were just primitive, that they were all based on parts of the body and varied from person to person and therefore were unreliable.

But think for a moment.
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Brendan Banfield was found guilty on all counts in the 2023 double murder trial in Fairfax County, Virginia.  
Prosecutors say Banfield orchestrated killings with Brazilian au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair

1)foxnews.com/us/virginia-ma… A jury convicted him of two counts of aggravated murder for the killings of his wife, Christine Banfield, and Joseph Ryan, a stranger lured to their home under false pretenses.  
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Just for information:

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon make a decision affecting citizenship—birthright citizenship—so here is some explanation for those interested.
1) Citizenship in the USA was not really defined until the passage of the 14th Amendment in 1868, other than in the qualifications of the President and Vice President, where both offices could be held only by someone born in what became a U.S. state.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The Don Lemon case has caused a lot of the “woke” left to do what they do best—conflate issues, distract from the facts, and confuse the public in order to control the narrative.
1) If you listen to ABC, NBC, MSNBC, etc., Don Lemon’s arrest is about freedom of the press and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. We hear outrage about the persecution of journalists, censorship, and dictatorship.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "TU B’SHVAT (THE 15TH BDAY OF THE MONTH OF SHVAT)

Tu Bishvat

The Jewish "New Year for Trees," is observed on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat (falling on February 2, 2026).
1) It marks the ecological New Year, celebrated by planting trees, eating fruits from the Seven Species, and environmental awareness, honoring the connection between people and nature.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “Another view of the anti-ICE protests.

I support ICE’s goal of arresting illegal migrants who are criminals and deporting them. Such criminals prey on the people in their own communities.
1) But I question how this is being done. The federal government has options. They can send in heavily armed paramilitary-looking fighters to do the arrests when the city or state refuses cooperation for political purposes, and
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The protester who died in Minneapolis came to the protest with a 9mm handgun, loaded with 12–15 bullets, and had an additional two clips with 12–15 bullets each in his pocket.
1) That means he was armed, with the potential of shooting up to 36–45 shots, prepared to shoot up to that many.

A “peaceful protester”? Other videos show him behaving very differently from being peaceful—screaming at ICE officers and damaging ICE vehicles.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote "The Zionist narrative needs a new look, a more accurate narrative.

How would you characterize a narrative that strengthened one’s enemies and helped them create a completely dangerous and erroneous narrative...
1) of their own because of what was omitted?

So began the narrative of Zionism in the late 19th century, emphasizing persecution and exclusion and the need for a homeland where that would end—a place of refuge to which Jews could escape.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "If you really want to clean up politics, the following is necessary:

A. Any politician, in office or a candidate, who says something is illegal when it is not, or unconstitutional when it is not,
1) should immediately be disqualified to serve and, if in office, removed and replaced. Those who are lawyers should be disbarred for their false statements about the law.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Shabbat Shalom
Parshah Beshalach
Exodus 13:17–17:16

And…..

Soon after allowing the people to leave Egypt, the Pharaoh decides that maybe his agreement was a mistake, and
1) he orders his army to pursue them, block them, and turn them back, and the newly freed people find themselves trapped between Pharaoh’s armies and the sea, on the coast of Egypt at the Sea of Reeds.
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1. Presidential Actions
ADDRESSING ADDICTION THROUGH THE GREAT AMERICAN RECOVERY INITIATIVE
Executive Orders
January 29, 2026

1)whitehouse.gov/presidential-a… 2. Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Launches the Great American Recovery Initiative to Address the Addiction Crisis
The White House
January 29, 2026

2)whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/20…