US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves after a press conference at the Trump Tower on May 31, 2016 in New York. / AFP / Jewel SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

How nice that some members of Trump’s family are Jewish and that he has many Jewish friends. What’s next? Will Trump be quoted as saying, “Some if my best friends are Jewish?” In any case, what’s new about an anti-Semite having particular Jews as friends because they aren’t like other Jews? Because unlike most Jews they don’t act this way or that way, or there is some obnoxious Jewish trait or characteristic they don’t display. The same thing happens when some racist points to a certain African-American as an exception, someone who is different from other AA’s, someone who a “credit to his race.” Donald Trump may talk and act like an anti-Semite, but we’re supposed to overlook this because there are individual Jews he happens to like. —Rabbi Kerry Baker

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