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Obama Is Not a Muslim or a Christian

י״א באלול ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 21 August 2010)

Half Sigma has written a couple posts in the past few days proclaiming that President Obama is not only not a Muslim, but that he’s not a Christian either: Obama: Muslim, atheist, or Christian? Is Obama a Muslim? I know he doesn’t claim that all his ideas are original, but I was saying that Obama [...]

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Where I Am and How I Got Here

ט׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Thursday 26 November 2009)

In 2005 I was pretty involved in protesting against the destruction of all the Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria. I poured all my energy into that struggle and put myself and my safety and security on the line by getting myself arrested and refusing to cooperate with the police in their [...]

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Libertarians and Jews

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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