How a former Westboro Baptist Church spokesperson overcame her hatred of Jews
The event, “Overcoming Hatred,” was the latest in the Times of Israel Presents series and co-sponsored by Jewlicious. Its aim was to show how civility and dialogue can bring even the most unlikely of allies together. (For those who missed it, the two will tell their story again on Wednesday night at the Beit Alliance in Jerusalem.)
Phelps-Roper is the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church — one of America’s most-hated institutions, famous for picketing soldiers’ funerals and other sensitive locations and events. While perceived as homophobic and anti-Semitic to outsiders, the church view themselves as providing a service to otherwise damned souls.
“The church doesn’t see what they’re doing as hateful,” Phelps-Roper told the kippa-studded crowd.
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