http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=119295 Dec. 10, 2017. Luke Ford talks with Dennis Dale. This week’s Torah portion tells the story of “Joseph’s interpretation of Pharaoh’s dreams, Joseph’s rise to power in Egypt, and Joseph’s testing of his brothers.”
* The story of Joseph illustrates why Jews have rarely been popular with non-Jews but have often been useful to gentile rulers. Joseph was the first court Jew. He became second in power to the Pharoah and he took on, to some degree, an Egyptian point of view. He accuses his brothers of being spies. An ethnocentric group is quick to view outsiders as spies. Jews have sometimes accused me of being a spy in my conversion to Judaism. Anglos, being the least ethno-centric group around, are unlikely to view outsiders as spies.
* Joseph did not learn much from his experience. In Gen. 43:34, he gives Benjamin portions five times as large as the portions given to the rest of his brothers.
* How does it help America to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital?
* How does white nationalism compare with Jewish nationalism?
* What is the basis of morality? God, the state, evolutionary biology?
http://dennisdale.blogspot.com/2017/12/i-posted-crappy-edit-of-this-earlier.html
