Gil It doesn’t matter if you’re Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist, right wing or left wing or centrist. The world seems divided into those who think bad people should die and those who think bad people should repent. And those who think bad people should die are in the streets and in the halls of … Read more
The freedom to fully live by our covenant in the land of our ancestors is an expression of the human right to choose the very order of one’s earthly existence. It does not preclude other rights or others’ rights – but it is an inalienable right nonetheless. If you deny my brothers and sisters that … Read more
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If a Nazi, a terrorist, a boer, a fascist raises their hand against you – do what you need to do to protect yourself But a civil society based on law and order has due process for criminals, not mob violence Chanting for their death or calling for violence against them is succumbing to their … Read more
Em. E. A9. The list grows. The transitions are slow. My fingers hurt. And i can pluck out the intro to redemption song on a single string. May it be a stick in Satan’s eye! Forces of evil ain’t gonna stop me from playin 😛 May the return to a beginner’s mind in something soulful … Read more
Thinking pragmatically about the future of the Land… Can an additional state, without any state institutions or assets or economy or territorial continuity or independence, really make it? And what purpose would it serve, if it did actually work and function, that wouldn’t be realized in an inclusive Israeli/Palestinian society?
I wrote something but I corrected myself by the end, so I erased what I wrote and: Tensions are not contradictions. We can and must live with tensions. And faith must be freed from contradictions.
Bar Nativ comes very close in this article. He definitely gets the main idea of the Mishne Tora – to create a definitive, encyclopedic textbook of the Jewish legal system for practical use – but misses the main point of why such a book is valuable. Not (just) to resolve disputes by providing information – … Read more
I’m not a Jewish supremacist, an Objectivist, or even a pure Capitalist anymore… I don’t think that Ayn Rand was a fantastic novelist and I haven’t read all of her books. But Israel is Galt’s Gulch and Atlas’ biggest shrug would be if the Jewish people of every country and every continent simply left the … Read more
By the way I watched the latest Kanye West single. You know, the one where he got a bunch of actors to dress like slaves and chant “Heil Htler” while he complains that (((they))) won’t let him see his kids. …mark my words, the element in American society personified by Kanye is the meeting point … Read more