As To Describing Me As An Outsider

We Belong To Talking, Not What Talking Is About... Stop Talking - And You Are Out. Silence Equals Exclusion.

You Judge A Society By The Decency Of Living Of The Weakest

The Tragedy Is What - Given The 'right Circumstances,' - Normal Decent Folks, Like You And Me, Will Do. This Is What Makes Me Worry Whenever Looking On The Road That Israel Entered And Shows No Intention Of Leaving.

Throughout Early Modernity There Were Very Strong Pressures On Jews To Assimilate. Assimilating Meant Cutting Your Ties With The Community Of Origin.

Where We Hope To Land (and Where We Do Land, Though Only For A Fleeting Moment, Enough For Tired Wings To Catch The Wind Anew) Is A 'there' Which We Thought Of Little And Knew Of Even Less.