ב׳ בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 19 December 2009)
As a university student in America, I once read an article posing the question: When did the modern era in Jewish history begin? The author’s answer was to point out that the answer depends on who answers the question. A Zionist might say, for example, that modern Jewish history began in 1789 with the rise [...]
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ל׳ במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 17 November 2009)
I was thinking about Half Sigma’s question Why are all the Jews libertarian? and actually came up with an interesting idea: Liberty (I hate the term “libertarianism”) is the Jewish version of conservatism in countries outside Israel. In other words, those Jews who are inclined to become conservatives, either because they’re simply disposed to it [...]
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