Amsterdam synagogue declares Jewish expert on Spinoza ‘persona non grata’ | The Times of Israel
More than 350 years after philosopher Baruch Spinoza was excommunicated from the Spanish-Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam, a leader of the community has banned a scholar of Spinoza s work from visiting the community s synagogue and library due to his research of the heretic.
If they were right then, they are right now. But — Spinoza is pretty cool IMHO.