Anti-Semitism Is a Serious Problem, but Restricting the Freedom of Speech and of the Press Is Not the Way to Fight It

We reported, on Thursday, how someone had distributed white supremacist flyers in Lexington’s Kenwick neighborhood, flyers contained in baggies, using rice to weigh them down enough not to be swept away by the wind. The Lexington Police Department was investigating, with Lt Dan Truex stating that the LPD were “very interested in identifying” “who possibly …

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Ecclesiastes: Turn, Turn, Turn

Let’s talk about the Book of Ecclesiastes. Many of us from an earlier, more hip generation, may have become familiar with Ecclesiastes when the song,  “Turn, Turn, Turn” (written by Pete Seeger in 1959) was released by the Byrds in 1965.  The word “Ecclesiastes” is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word koheleth, which means “one who convenes …

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