“Our Lords, the Rabbis of France”
By José Faur ‘Rabbis of France’ was a code term invented to bully the opposition. It referred to rabbis in France and Germany sympathetic to the anti-Maimonidean policies. They comprised […]
Payback time – the Case of the Catalonian Rabbis
By José Faur Jewish Heroic ideology penetrated the Iberian Peninsula in a three-prong movement: ‘anti-Maimonedean,’ ‘Kabbalah,’ and ‘Rabbis of France’ (usually referred to as חכמי צרפת ‘the Sages of France’ […]
SHU Tom Friedman, “Ariel Sharon: The Man on the Wall”
Tom Friedman the staunch Zionist does something very interesting here; a strategy that is common among many such Zionists: He separates “good” Zionism from “bad” Zionism. The table is set […]
Michoacán hoy, ¿y mañana quién?
Las noticias sobre grupos civiles de auto-defensa no son nuevas en nuestro país. Tampoco lo es la reacción del gobierno de desarmarlos, y su subsecuente maniobra de controlar todo con […]
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE By Rev. David de Sola Pool From Why I am a Jew (Beacon Press: Boston, 1957; pp. 189-198) Recently I came across this book […]
A Short Introduction to Vico’s Humanist Thought
And Its Applications for Our Days Giambattista Vico was an Italian Renaissance thinker who lived from 1668 to 1744. He is best know for the publication of Scienza Nuova and […]
La utopía del discurso intelectual mexicano
En la edición dominical de El Norte se publicó una editorial escrita por el historiador mexicano Enrique Krauze, que se intituló “Una modesta utopía.”[i] En ésta recoge ciertas ideas que […]
Isaac Leeser: The Right Man at the Wrong Time
By: Aharon Rakeffet-Rothkoff Introductory Commentary by David Shasha I recently prepared a special edition of the SHU devoted to the great American rabbis Sabato Morais (of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia) and Henry Pereira […]
On Creating a Blog and the Internet Age
For a long time I have been wanting to create a blog. When Blogger was the rage, and long before Google acquired it, I did create and account with them. […]
