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JFS and Racial Discrimination

ב' בטבת ה'תש"ע (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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Birobidzhan: The Worst Idea Ever

י"א בכסלו ה'תש"ע (28 November 2009)

How do you know you’ve got the worst idea ever? It’s unlikely that anyone will come up to you and say, “Your idea is so bad it makes me want to cry,” nor will your idea win a “worst idea ever” vote (masses of people tend actually to prefer bad ideas as a matter of [...]

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Conversion to Judaism

כ"ח במרחשון ה'תש"ע (15 November 2009)

For purposes of what I consider to be Jewish unity, even though I don’t accept Rabbinic authority to impose an interpretation of the Torah, to legislate or to enforce their interpretation or legislation, I have spent many years believing that all conversions must follow a strict “orthodox” approach: the prospective convert is (1) discouraged, then [...]

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