Tag Archives: Moses Mendelssohn

two tribes 10 to go

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Dave

Jewish unity is the product of history and that history is unique… In Medieval Christendom the jews remained the major dissident community in a conforming world, the eternal Protestants standing outside the monolithic Christian church, witnesses to another truth and … Continue reading →

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throw someone under the bus, not just anyone

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Dave

“Harold dear, (Sir Harold MacMichael) there’s a nice looking man at the door wanting to see you. presentable. he says he knows Lord Moyne, …and by the way, he’s holding a gun. A rather large one. Imagine, in our neighborhood,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anwar Sadat, Avraham Stern, Edward Said, Folke Bernadotte, Folke Bernadotte assassination, Harold Macmillan, Lord Moyne assassination, Martin Buber, max dimont, Moses Mendelssohn, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Sir Harold MacMichael, Stern Gang, Theodor Herzl, Yitzhak Shamir | Leave a comment

bearing false witness

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Dave

Inside job? The implications if so, of the Yad Vashem desecrations, extensive as they were, are far reaching. Certainly, the quantity and openess in which the deed was executed has some of the earmarks of people in the know as … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Avner Shalev Yad Vashem, Der Sturmer, Haavara Agreement, Israel anarchism, Israel extreme left, Jonathan Kay national Post, Julius Streicher, Mea Shearim, MK Zahava Galon, Moses Mendelssohn, Rabbi Moses Sofer of Pressburg, Reform Movement judaism, Rudolf Kastner, Yad Vashem Museum, Yad Vashem Museum defaced | Leave a comment

lessing and nathan the wise guy

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

It says much about the Enlightenment spirit that the playwright Gotthold Lessing preferred to look upon himself as a critic. It says much about Lessing the critic that his greatest work of poetic criticism was entitled Laokoon. To Lessing, the … Continue reading →