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JFS and Racial Discrimination

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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Discrimination

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 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 (Tuesday 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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The Coming Shalit Deal

ו׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Monday 23 November 2009)

A deal to free Gilad Shalit is imminent. Or it isn’t. It’s impossible to tell from any article like this one. In general, reports that a deal is imminent are usually manufactured by one side, namely by one side’s negotiating team, to pressure the other side into restarting negotiations. They may also be planted in [...]

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Spies and the politicians who love them

כ״ז במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 14 November 2009)

Israel experiences spy scandals with some frequency, but it’s not common for a KGB agent to reach such a high level as Shimon Levinson. I was at first uninterested in his case, a few of the details of which have recently been made public. But when reading through the article about him, I was pretty [...]

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Inglorious Basterds

כ״ז במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 14 November 2009)

Check out the headline of this article about Inglourious Basterds in Haaretz: Inglourious Basterds offends some Israelis, but others get the joke. Does that sound foolish to anyone else beside me? Is it even conceivable that some people might be offended because they get the joke? Anyway, in the spirit of there being no business [...]

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