It's very good. Something else I'd like to see somebody tackle is a habit analogous to the Muslim takfir, where we accuse each other of being bad Jews, on theological grounds. My Jewishness is of a diaspora-socialist background like yours, and I don't practice the religion at all, other than going to somebody else's seder and Rosh ha-Shana dinners most years, but I find myself constantly tempted to attack Benjamin Netanyahu, for example, who also doesn't practice the religion any more than Ben-Gurion or Rabin did, as a bad Jew, because he violently rejects the commandment to care for strangers. I'm sure this is stupid on my part, but is there some legitimate way to make the point?
thanks! wasnt' sure there'd be much interest, so nice to hear someone found it useful!
It's very good. Something else I'd like to see somebody tackle is a habit analogous to the Muslim takfir, where we accuse each other of being bad Jews, on theological grounds. My Jewishness is of a diaspora-socialist background like yours, and I don't practice the religion at all, other than going to somebody else's seder and Rosh ha-Shana dinners most years, but I find myself constantly tempted to attack Benjamin Netanyahu, for example, who also doesn't practice the religion any more than Ben-Gurion or Rabin did, as a bad Jew, because he violently rejects the commandment to care for strangers. I'm sure this is stupid on my part, but is there some legitimate way to make the point?
Not sure; I guess I just kind of default to saying heтАЩs an evil bigoted shithead...