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marybourg

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24. Well, we Ashkenazi certainly managed to lighten up
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 10:56 AM
Jun 2020

considerably in 2000 years, for a people who, both history and gene studies have shown, never intermarried until very recently and who spent many generations largely beyond the pale of settlement in ghettos.

I personally, in nearly eighty years, the first 48 of them living in heavily Jewish areas of N.Y., have never seen a Jewish person who looked like that. I have known two Sephardic families who were dark-skinned, but they were from cosmopolitan trading cities in North Africa, had African features and looked nothing like that man either. But what do I know in the face of the new common knowledge.

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I don't buy into this man of color conceit. marybourg Jun 2020 #1
Yeah, I don't buy it either. Dave Starsky Jun 2020 #3
How on earth can he look like that when his mother had long blonde hair and blue eyes? tavernier Jun 2020 #7
I grew up believing that Jesus was a ginger. NurseJackie Jun 2020 #13
Well, we Ashkenazi certainly managed to lighten up marybourg Jun 2020 #24
I don't know if the skin tone in this image is a product of genetics. Dave Starsky Jun 2020 #25
I think the point is that he wasn't the fair skinned, light haired, blue eyed man that is Arkansas Granny Jun 2020 #4
Thank you for the "voice" of reason Ferrets are Cool Jun 2020 #19
Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi TheRickles Jun 2020 #8
Another facet of this is volstork Jun 2020 #12
Once again recommending Collimator Jun 2020 #14
Catholicism modrepub Jun 2020 #18
How can the Irish have never been considered "white"? smirkymonkey Jun 2020 #21
The point that the book makes Collimator Jun 2020 #28
I see. It's just so strange to identify them by color, though. smirkymonkey Jun 2020 #29
Virtually everybody was considered of a lower class Collimator Jun 2020 #30
Here's an interesting take on what Baby Jesus looked like: Towlie Jun 2020 #26
"He was no angel" ck4829 Jun 2020 #2
He did not comply. All his fault he got nailed to a cross. boston bean Jun 2020 #6
But nevertheless he persisted... Canoe52 Jun 2020 #16
If you have a problem with this term perhaps you need to consider where Jesus was from. Ford_Prefect Jun 2020 #5
What does Jesus look like? It depends on whose living room wall his portrait hangs. keithbvadu2 Jun 2020 #9
I'm more confused by the sign mentioning ... left-of-center2012 Jun 2020 #10
The denominations did not grantcart Jun 2020 #15
It's probably similar to my church hvn_nbr_2 Jun 2020 #23
That's what I originally thought but went to the website grantcart Jun 2020 #27
The Church and pastor are real. pazzyanne Jun 2020 #11
The Romans Killed Jesus, NOT the Law Keeping Jews panfluteman Jun 2020 #17
The sentiment comes from the Bible passage... Wounded Bear Jun 2020 #20
I interpreted it slightly differently cojoel Jun 2020 #22
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