Did you know that we at Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics get together every month and argue for hours about such questions as “Does God Make Us Good?” ON PURPOSE?

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"'If it’s women’s day, what are you doing here?' he said. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world, and not just because it was my political duty, or because of the electricity of the crowd. The crush was rife with political luminaries." this essay by Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی is REMARKABLE

deeply grateful and proud to have published this essay by Sohrab Ahmari It is written with such compassion, and deep respect for the Jewish tradition whose political emissaries spit on the best of our heritage

"Today, it is the Israeli left who carry the Jewish conscience, who grasp all the dimensions of Jewish moral responsibilities." A Christian Friend's Troubled Thoughts on Israel. My essay in Leon Wieseltier's Liberties journal (Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics). libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

"The Jews themselves at times yearn to escape their dilemmas: to renounce ethical universalism once and for all as an external imposition, mottling Jewish blood and endangering Jewish vitality." This, I argue, is the deepest tragedy of Bibi's reign. libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

It is true that the Israeli Left is very small -- I write about a TINY but extremely brave contingent of Israelis who constantly put their bodies on the line to defend Palestinians in the West Bank from violent Israeli settlers here:

The Talmud teaches: “This people [Israel] is distinguished by three characteristics: they are merciful, modest, and benevolent. He who has these characteristics is fit to join this people.” Me, on the imperative of recovering Jewish ethical universalism. libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

libertiesjournal.com/online-article… A well-written piece by Sohrab Ahmari

"rabbis taught that mercy, modesty, and benevolence are the essential ingredients of Jewishness" Sohrab Ahmari pair with, contrast between Christian optimism and Jewish hope: Contra cheerful shrugging Leibnizian indifference (we already live in the God-given best of all

The rabid Jewish particularist as much as the anti-Semite would sever the Jews from ethical universalism. But it was the God of the Jews who disclosed himself as a universal God, bearing a message for all mankind, over and above pagan deities and myths. libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

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