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Tsvi Bisk: The Day After, What I Would Like to See After the War
Tsvi Bisk: The Day After, What I Would Like to See After the War First and foremost I want to see every single living hostage and every single deceased body returned to Israel. For this, I am ready for an immediate ceasefire and the release of many prison
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Tsvi Bisk – Are The Haredim Not Authentic Jews
Tsvi Bisk – Are The Haredim Not Authentic Jews In the Mishnah Yehoshua ben Perachia says, “Make for yourself a Rav. Maimonides (the Rambam) and the Maharal both explain that the Mishnah is careful to say “make” for yourself a teacher, not to
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Tsvi Bisk – Mitigating the Middle East Conundrum
Tsvi Bisk – Mitigating the Middle East Conundrum The following is condensed from an essay that appeared in World Affairs (Winter 2022), a responsa to Prof. Alon Ben-Meir’s proposed Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation. Let’s be
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Tsvi Bisk – Racism is worse than Immoral – it’s Stupid!
Tsvi Bisk – Racism is worse than Immoral – it’s Stupid! Nothing undercuts the fortunes of nations more than racism. From the Spanish Inquisition, to American slavery and Jim Crow, to Nazi Germany, we witness the self-defeating nature of ethn
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Tsvi Bisk - The Evolution of Jewish Identity
Tsvi Bisk – The Evolution of Jewish Identity There is no such thing as Authentic Judaism There is no such thing as authentic Judaism let alone normative Jewish identity. I differentiate between Judaism (the religion of the Jewish people) and Jewish
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Tsvi Bisk - Madrid/Oslo Has Been Good For the Jews
Tsvi Bisk – Madrid/Oslo Has Been Good For the Jews And is a Good Model for the Future The architects of the Oslo Accords have been branded “Oslo Criminals” by Israel’s political right because of subsequent Palestinian terror and nu
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Tsvi Bisk - The Case for Circumcision
Tsvi Bisk – The Case for Circumcision Over the past several years (and most recently in the comment section of the New York Times) the Jewish custom of male circumcision, in which the foreskin of the penis is removed, has been increasingly compared
