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Interesting Times
There is a well-known curse, supposedly Chinese, that goes: May you live in interesting times! In my childhood I lived in a New York City that snowed in winter. We schoolkids built snowmen and went sledding in the park. Life … Continue reading →
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The Covenant on the Timeline
In the Book of Exodus, we read that God offered a covenant to the people of Israel. God acted from the top of Mount Sinai and the mountain shook and smoke went up from it and there was thunder and … Continue reading →
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Tagged anti-Israel journalism, anti-semitic friends, anti-semitic propaganda, arguing with nazis, Ayalon Institute, Bible as literature, Biblical Covenant and Supersession, biblical Hebrew, blaming the Jews, Book of Exodus, British Army Base, broken friendship, character reversal, citizen soldiers, covenant and supersession, covenant continuity, deceiving the enemy, did miracles happen, family history, family stories, fashionable Anti-Zionism, friends turning into enemies, God's pilot project, Haganah weapon manufacturing, Haganah weapon procurement, Hebrew language revived, hidden cache of arms, hiding in plain sight, historical memory, historicity of the Bible, Israel and God on Mount Sinai, Israel modern and ancient, Israel's 1948 Declaration of Independence, Israel's 1948 War, Israel's underground army, Israel's War of Independence, Jewish history, Jewish memory, Jewish National Fund-USA, Jewish survival, joking with the enemy, literal interpretation of the Bible, literary interpretation of the Bible, Mandate for Jewish homeland, Mandate prohibiting Jewish self defense, Middle East, miracles as metaphors, modern Hebrew, moral reversals, Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai covenant, Mt. Sinai, murder of six million Jews, Nazi death camps, ongoing covenant, Ottoman Turks in Palestine, passionate history, Pre-State Israel, reviving Hebrew, screen memory, secret weapons manufacturing, strategic deception, the bullet factory museum, the Haganah, the media and Israel, thunder on Mount Sinai, World War 2 aftermath, Yosef Avidar
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Can Sibling Rivalry Be Ontological?
In the top-floor, high-ceiling, six-room New York apartment where my parents once lived, next to the dining room table and in front of the window, there stood a tall potted plant. It grew and grew, though I don’t recall our giving … Continue reading →
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Tagged apocalyptic hopes, Arch of Titus, Bar Kokhba, Church Fathers and Jews, civilizational problems, cultural fault line, earlier New York, early Christian views, end of history, Eric Voegelin, Eric Voegelin's Israel and Revelation, first century expectations, Greeks and Socrates, inappropriately mystical, intuitive people, Isaiah's peaceable kingdom, Israel's 1948 Declaration of Independence, Jewish Christian ontology, Jewish messianism, Jewish/Christian competition, Jews Christians and God, last Jewish rebellion, lions and lambs, messianic hopes, Michael Wyschogrod, mystical views, mysticism and superstition, old rent apartments, ontological problem, predictions falsified, Presbyterian Church and BDS, Presbyterian Church and Deicide, Rabbi Mitchell Delcau, Rabbi Q&A with Presbyterian congregation, Roman rule in Palestine, sibling rivalry, supersessionism, supersessionism repudiated, Voegelin and Jewish history, Voegelin's Order and History
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