Sublime

we can live according to our own distinct moral rules and nevertheless be fair with others; particularist traditions can be reconciled with fairness to outsiders.

the multiplicity of communities has the ironic consequence of highlighting the common core of halakha that is common to all these diverse communities.

Building Tel Aviv Gymnasium (high school).

Ben-Gurion was determined to snuff out any remaining embers of the Irgun and the Lechi, and he convinced the cabinet to give him broad powers to end acts of terrorism, including administrative detention without trial. The era of the Jewish underground,…

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People are not monads. A real, live human self is always already partial to certain, select others. Morality needs to take this essential fact about human selfhood into account rather than pretend to override it.