I understand the Neo-Nazis think my fellow Red-Sea pedestrians are treating them like potted plants.
I would say that this is no more true for the UK than for the US.
Two words: cheese rolling.
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Walnut tree whipping.
Damn it. Iām walking into this thread expecting to get angry and Iām walking out looking for recipes.
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Thereās an old saying: āA woman, a spaniel, a walnut tree: the harder you beat them, the better they be.ā (I first saw this in a Dashiell Hammett novel, but when I lived in Yorkshire with my Springer Spaniel people used to stop us on our walks and repeat it to me.)
(Note added in edit: Iām pretty sure the saying is from Shakespeare, not Hammett.)
Hey, just because someoneās a Jew doesnāt make them automatically a good person.
Iāve pretty much cut ties from my birth community of Orthodox Judaism because people in that community were corrupt, bigoted, and generally inconsiderately evil, and, in their zeal to observe the halakha as strictly as possible, had forgotten the lessons of Rabbi Akivaās students of courtesy, empathy, consideration, and kindness, instead making a social pecking order out of Ostentatious Pietyāit mattered more in that community how strictly (and publicly) one held to the most strict interpretations than how one treated oneās fellow Jews with kindness.
So I donāt really give a crap about how publicly pious Ivanka and her husband are, because that has zero reflection on how they engage in certain other aspects of Judaism, such as Hillelās Dictum (āDo unto others as you would have done unto yourself. The rest is commentary, go forth and learn it.ā), Tikkun Olam (lit. ārepairing the worldā, taken as a commandment to engage in social justice and make a better world), midda kineged midda (lit. āmeasure opposite measureā, but interpreted as āyou receive what you giveā), or צֶ×ֶק צֶ×ֶק, ×ŖÖ¼Ö“×ØÖ°×Ö¼Ö¹×£ (Deuteronomy 16:20, meaning āJustice, Justice, you shall pursueāāi.e. that youāll never reach perfect justice, but to still try), or the classic quote from the Talmud, āWhoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire worldā (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5; Yerushalmi Talmud 4:9, Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 37a).
In the light of that last one, the fact that she supports her fatherās political ambitions is enough to make me go 
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Now, wherever he went, his look would heal rather than destroy.
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The thing is, religious affiliation does come into it for that specific example. Why? Theyāre Orthodox Jews, keeping shomer yontif (strict observance of the holy day). That means that they donāt drive, anywhere, on the High Holy Day, unless itās a life-threatening emergency. So theyāre not āwalking in the street like normal people carrying something theyād just bought in a shopā. Theyāre walking like observant Orthodox Jews, on their way to or from synagogue on a High Holy Day, carrying the ritual accoutrements of that Day. Thatās not a moral judgement, itās a social circumstance.
I have once again got in out of my depth, and have deleted the relevant posts. I am sorry that you have had to spend time replying with correction and clarification.
Why is it an issue? You didnāt know, and now you learned something to replace the ignorance 
Iām a teacher by calling and a tutor by professionāeducating people is what I do . Ignorance by itself isnāt a bad thing, because it can be replaced by knowledge. Itās willful ignorance thatās condemnable, and you have none of that
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