“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 Yesterday I got into a heated argument with a friend about the war – are American soldiers more moral than Iraqi soldiers? Is liberating Iraq a worthy cause for war or not? In the course [...]
A while back, Professor Shlomo Avineri reviewed a new translation into Hebrew of Theodor Herzl’s utopian novel Altneuland. Since “Zionism” means so many things to so many different people, it’s worth reading what the founder of the movement had to say, a vision far different than Jabotinsky’s: “…it would be worthwhile to have Israeli high-school [...]




