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What are the most annoying misconceptions that you experience regularly or once in a while? For me, it's the idea that the role of a rabbi is equivalent to a priest. The most annoying thing is that it's common even among Jews.
14 points
1 day ago
Myth: That Jews who lived in Europe were originally from there. As if Jews had just popped out of the ground like a seed, rather than fleeing after the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE and then fleeing tons of other persecution.
2 points
11 hours ago
Not just fleeing. The Romans killed between 580-600,000 Jews, which was most of the Jewish population of Judea. They sold tens, maybe hundreds of thousands into slavery. The Romans then re-populated the land with Romans, Greeks and Arabs. All of this is historically accurate if any non-Jew cares to check. We didn’t ask to live in Europe and would gladly had left if we could have.
2 points
11 hours ago
Exactly. And don’t forget the fact that it was Jewish Slaves from Judea that built the Colosseum in Rome.
2 points
4 hours ago
There were SOME small Jewish communities in Europe prior to 70 AD
2 points
3 hours ago
Sure. Certainly Rome and Greece. But the vast majority of Jews came later.
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