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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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Discrimination

כ"ד בכסלו ה'תש"ע (11 December 2009)

When I went to college years ago in America, I took a constitutional law class with a professor so fanatic and bloodthirsty that she made me feel uncomfortable as a male to attend the lectures (I passed it by cramming with the help of an arch-feminist who later became a lesbian – see, I don’t [...]

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Jews & the US Army

ז' בכסלו ה'תש"ע (24 November 2009)

My grandfather served in the US army’s occupation of Japan after the Second World War – I was led to believe that he was too young to have been in the army during the war – but he was born in 1926 and I’ve long wondered if he didn’t maneuver somehow to avoid having to [...]

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