Thursday, March 17, 2011
SOMETHING ELSE I DIDN'T KNOW
The BBC World Service has an ongoing series called "Heart and Soul" that deal with religious issues. A recent episode looked into the controversy among Jews over the use of Hebrew as an everyday language:
An Orthodox Jew who is opposed to the secular use of Hebrew said that in his opinion, Israel was not a religiously sanctioned state because that can only be done by the coming of the Messiah.
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Otto Weininger claimed that for a project like Israel to be successful, Jews would have to abandon Judaism in favor of a "pre-Jewish" pagan Hebrew tribal nationalism. There are Israeli groups advocating such overtly, but some might also claim this has been ongoing in effect if not name for some time.
http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/i-suppose-this-means-he-speaks-yiddish-as-well/
related.
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