Nachum Kaplan

This is a guest essay by Nahum Kaplan, a longtime journalist and commentator who writes the newsletter Moral Clarity.

There is a peculiar neurosis familiar to every clinician who has treated narcissistic personality structures, envy driven identity theft.

The patient does not simply wish to defeat his rival, he wishes to wear his skin.

So let's get right into it.

Before we get to Rabbi Kaplan, Rabbi Nachum Kaplan, I'm interested to know a little bit more about the roots of where you come from.

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This is a guest essay by Nahum Kaplan, a longtime journalist and commentator who writes the newsletter Moral Clarity.

There is a peculiar stage in every antisemitic surge when the people noticing it are regarded as a greater nuisance than the people producing it.

Jews point to rhetoric becoming uglier, institutions becoming less reliable, political movements becoming more comfortable with antisemitic ideas, and respectable people finding increasingly elaborate reasons to excuse them.

You had, uh, uh, Avrami Weinberg.

You had Nachum Kaplan.

You had a lot of chutznikes that from there.

And the, their parents, of course, were worried about it in, in, in America.