...got an odd duck as "director of Center for Jewish Studies." Baylor had some trouble years ago when the med school set up ties w/Saudi Arabia, then found S.A. wouldn`t admit Jewish doctors. Looks like another weird circumstance.
Ellis`s arguments sound ignorant and tendentious, hardly worth reading, nor even meant to be read seriously. Just the fact of the book is intended, that there`s now this book written by someone with a plausible job title at an actual university.
Einstein`s views on politics were often naive and uninformed. "You can`t have peace by preparing for war," attributed to him, is contradicted by most political scientists, and is the belief that Chamberlain had in the 1930s, and the US before the War of 1812.
Shallow Jewish-style moralizing sounds well from kibitzers. But without an actual state, having to make actual decisions, often choosing the lesser or least among evils, such kibitzing is vapid.
Another yekke, Yehudah Amichai, expressed this clearly. |
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