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Now, facing today’s Amalek, we are reminded that the Torah calls us not just to escape Amalek, but to extirpate it. We are commanded to do real, literal battle against the Amalek we face in every generation. That means coming off the bench in the fight against white supremacy, putting our reputations and our money and our physical bodies on the line.

Now, facing today’s Amalek, we are reminded that the Torah calls us not just to escape Amalek, but to extirpate it. We are commanded to do real, literal battle against the Amalek we face in every generation. That means coming off the bench in the fight against white supremacy, putting our reputations and our money and our physical bodies on the line.

Rabbi Joshua Stanton “What Jews Can Do to Blot Out White Supremacy”, HuffPost, 2017