The Aqademya
By José Faur See Section II, n. 24. It is for the reason given by Vico, that a free people ought to exercise “sovereignty over languages and letters,” that I […]
Category Archives: Política
Are You Ready for Trumpageddon?
By David Ramírez I began writing an article with this title back at the beginning of the year while the Republican nominee was not yet picked. I did not finish […]
Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi: A Study in Contrasts
By David Shasha The late Elie Wiesel was an immensely complicated figure who helped raise public awareness of the Holocaust, but who also became consumed by his own celebrity and […]
Convivencia Under Siege: Live Action Self-Hating Sephardim
By: David Ramírez Please note: All the Facebook quotes are reprinted without change. The typos have been retained. The personal names of the participants have been removed. And just to […]
The Lost Tribes’ Musical Chairs
By David Ramírez Whenever I see a new post in the Ashkenazi media on the subject of the Lost Tribes or Iberian anusim, I ask myself: Whatever happened to basic […]
De conversos y la pérdida de la identidad sefaradita
Por David Ramírez Al platicar con un amigo mío sobre cómo la nueva generación de sefaradíes está cada día menos consciente sobre la identidad sefaradí, y los problemas sistémicos que […]
Of Conversos and the Loss of Sephardic Identity
By David Ramírez In talking to a friend of mine about how the new generation of Sephardim are becoming less and less aware about Sephardic identity, and the systemic problems […]
More on Conversos and Freund’s Continuous Web of Lies
By David Ramírez In his ongoing self-promotion cycle, recently we learned of Freund’s discovery of Abarbanel’s “prophecies” in a Jerusalem Post article titled “The Abarbanel and the return of the […]
On Undocumented Mexican Workers, Donald Trump and Ann Coulter
By David Ramírez Illegal immigration has been a constant in North American history since the 16th century, starting with the European migrants from England, Germany and the Netherlands; the most […]
Ideológico y contextual: los despliegues de razonamiento legal por Kook y Uziel
La instrumentación de Halakháh leMa‘aséh en las tradiciones askenazí y sefaradí Por David Ramírez INTRODUCCIÓN En la primera parte del s. XX, el sufragio femenino era un tema candente. Los […]
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