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...anti-Semitism” and “anti-Semite” into the German language in 1879 to denote a programmatic political agenda; English-language writers soon picked it up, and in both English and German—as in a number of other languages, Hebrew included—the term refers to a programmatic political, social and cultural agenda against Jews. The added element of racial hatred differentiates anti-Semitism from the older phenomenon of religious bigotry known as anti-Judaism. The practices and policies that lead to genocide, pogroms, lynching, and the systematic exclusion of Jews from...
...sense of humor, Russell’s instruction of Great Books makes good use of his awe-inspiring linguistic talent. Armed with a whiteboard, a recent discussion of Psalms saw Russell explore the origins and departures of the word “holy” from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, and Lithuanian. (Later, in the midst of serving Armenian cherry-flavored brandy out of a Diet Pepsi bottle, Russell declined to tabulate how many languages he knows, but it seems they would number about 20.)Seminars in the humanities are pervaded by a one-upmanship in which...
Brody, Stewart, and Stern are all Jewish, but pop culture does not celebrate them because they dance the Hora or recite Hebrew; pop culture right now appreciates traits in these stars that have formerly been associated with Jews but are now much more prevalent in broader society. Americans—or at least The O.C./Comedy Central/VH1-watching Americans—are attracted to resemblances of themselves in current Jewish stars, and not some conscious love for Moses’ people...
...Likud hamstrung his government after the Gaza evacuation, he asked Israeli President Moshe Katsav to dissolve the parliament and call for early elections to be held this March. Then he took an even bolder gamble: he bolted the Likud Party and built a new one, Kadima, (forward in Hebrew) on center ground. Sharon figured the mainstream had lost faith in both the give-no-quarter right and the peacenik ideology of the left. Labor voters seeking tough security and Likud voters ready for pragmatic solutions flocked to Kadima. So did high-profile luminaries from both parties, including a cluster...
...student at Hebrew University in Jerusalem during and after the Munich massacre. Also, I remember in later years the accounts in Israeli newspapers of the Israelis involved in the sanctioned killings. Those were people who did not enjoy killing but who felt no particular guilt about what they were ordered to do. They understood that it was about justice, not revenge. Rafael Guber Los Angeles...