Tag Archives: Martin Buber

messiah drill

Old time religion. Nothing like a fresh wave of messianic fever to stir the passions either in anticipation of the celebration that our sometimes brave, but generally old and tired world has reached its expiry date and something new is … Continue reading

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spinoza of supermarket street: keeping the rules?

Imperfection. Logic, and a strong dose of rationality dictates that God, according to the Jewish definition, is non existent, or at best, absent when needed most. Yet mixed with this certainty of doubt is often a personal belief, a sort … Continue reading

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fanon: still finding edge

…Fanon died of double pneumonia on December 6, 1961, six months before the liberation of Algeria. He was thirty-six years old. His body was flown back to Tunis with Ollie Iselin, the CIA operative, who attended his funeral. He was … Continue reading

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ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot

There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading

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checkpoint

Taking the express train down into the tunnel known as apartheid. Certainly, a Hebrew state or a Jewbrew state held hostage by a minority that holds it over the majority is something not to shout, scream, kick and leap for … Continue reading

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lost in the supermarket

It seemed like a good idea; drop into the market on the way home, grab some snacks and a few beers.Settlers without borders? Anarchists without frontiers? ..You have to think that tactics like the ISM is using is only going … Continue reading

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people who died

Misery loves company and there seems to be a lot of it to go around. As the historian John Luckacs once wrote, we don’t really solve problems, both social and personal, although there may be effort made; rather what happens … Continue reading

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i and thou and the guy that wrote it down

I and thou. Us and them. Utopian prophet and social visionary or charlatan and snake oil salesman, as intellectual lamb in sheep’s clothing; a crypto-Zionist as a very good cop? Martin Buber’s translator has died which brings focus back to … Continue reading

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social and cultural stress: cargo cult to the rescue

A sense of deprivation gives birth to the cult. Its driving force is invariably a form of religious fervor or secular religiosity. Its end: the destruction of the cult or the evolution of a new social order, and the cycle … Continue reading

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chill out: religion doesn’t grow on trees

Judith Butler is a major critic of the state of Israel. Like many in left, far left academia, they occupy a higher moral ground than the common and mortal, the unwashed who may actually have to do some real work … Continue reading

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