Showing posts with label Judaism: War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Judaism: War. Show all posts
Monday, March 6, 2017

Our Troubled History of Righteous Warriors (Pre-Purim Derashah)

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I presented this derashah on Shabbos, and it was sufficiently well-received for me to post it here as well: Children of the 1970’s and 19...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Esther's Bloody War?

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In case the few remaining readers have been wondering where I've been, quite a bit of my time in the past week has been dedicated to wri...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Banning Muslims and Jews from the US Military

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[ Note: Haveil Havalim is here ! ] I am a big fan of the Treppenwitz blog; David Bogner often makes me laugh as well as think. The other da...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

What’s so bad about Holy War?

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The New York Times testifies : A soldier, identified by the pseudonym Ram, is quoted as saying that in Gaza, “the rabbinate brought in a lot...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Praised is the one who will grab and smash… (Psalms 137:8-9)

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בת בבל השדודה אשרי שישלם לך את גמולך שגמלת לנו אשרי שיאחז ונפץ את עולליך אל הסלע I have reached a nadir moment I would have hoped never to r...
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Of Myanmar and Canaan: Ethnic Cleansing or Termination of an Unworthy Society? (Derashah: Shelach)

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I know this will be a controversial speech, but I've wanted to speak about this for years. So here goes! The forty years we spent in the...
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