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Bulletin from History
Bulletin from History The other day, I spoke by telephone to my Israeli first cousin. In her young days, she worked for a British military unit stationed in the region under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for … Continue reading
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Tagged academic delusions, accidents of birth, accidents of life, anthropomorphic God, beautiful souls, Biblical and modern Israel, British mandate for Palestine, British officers, circumstances, coincidences of life, Department Chair Hebrew university, diaspora Jewry, edge of existence, Hebrew university, Holocaust, Israel Defense Force, Israel's intellectual elite, Israeli family, Jewish Institute of Religion, Jewish jurisprudence, Jewish survival, light unto the nations, love at first sight, personal destiny, picturing God, pogrom, providential coincidence, Rav Tsair, Sabra, smuggling arms, stopping a pogrom, Talmud scholar, the "what if" factor, the butterfly effect, the Haganah, underground fighters, Yishuv
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A Funny Thing Happened to Philosophy (on its way to the deepest depths)
A Funny Thing Happened to Philosophy (on its way to the deepest depths) Recent projects of work have put me back in contact with a strange business in which philosophy had a strange part to play. In the 1920’s, as … Continue reading
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