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Helen Thomas

כ"ז בסיון ה'תש"ע (9 June 2010)

I’m a Jew and a Zionist (in some sense of the term), but that doesn’t mean I can’t get along with people who dislike Jews and Zionists. In my experience, a person’s feelings and opinions about Jews and Israel don’t correlate strongly to any positive or negative character traits, and they don’t tend to indicate [...]

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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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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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Inglorious Basterds

כ"ז במרחשון ה'תש"ע (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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