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Jesus was born into a world defined by generation after generation of Jews fighting against Jews about what it means to be Jewish.

A Jewish world divided into political camps and religious movements, a massive diaspora with over half the world’s Jews, a Jewish state centered around Jerusalem and closely aligned with the West’s greatest superpower, anti-establishment populists raging against corrupt institutions, westernized cultural elites clashing with rabbis and zealots — sound f…