י״ט במרחשון ה׳תשע״א (Wednesday 27 October 2010)
I recently had to spend some time in Paris on business. It was not something I did eagerly, but I was pleasantly surprised. The people were almost uniformly helpful and friendly, they all spoke to me in English. I did not even try to pretend that I could say something in French. Everyone smoked. Their [...]
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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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