As a confused soul, a tortured unintellectual liberal with a distaste for political correctness and a strong need for some Divine Discipline to come down on my ill-behaved tuchas, I was happy to find this honest tip-of-the-hat to the cuddly settlers who I love so much. As far as words like "wrong" or "extremist," eh- I can leave that out. But otherwise, this cat makes a crucial point.
Grammarians-- should I have said "whom" in the sentence above, not "who"???
luggage angst update: made it with very little stress from Brooklyn to JFK to Ben Gurion to Jerusalem. I was over by about 25 pounds, and paid the overage charge of $130-- should have brought another 50 pounds of stuff, it would have been the same fee. The Holy Duffel, after a decade or more of service and 2 journeys to the Ir HaKodesh (holy city- jerusalem) has a tear in it. Nevertheless, weeks of neuroses have been proven unecessary- what else is new?
Sunday, July 17, 2005
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Hey, man,
Thanks so much for your blog, and for that wonderful comment on jpost.com.
I'm envious that you're in Israel already. I'm loving CPE, but can't wait for Jm. Still, I'm panicked at still having no apt, no visa, no plane tix, and am hoping to fix at least the plane tix part today.
I can't wait for Israel, but it's going to be a very different experience with Hope and Eli. Hopefully one just as rich, but certainly not the same.
kol tuv,
--J
keren and i appreciated that link to jpost, and i am sure many israelis have similar sentiments (whether they admit it or not).
it's true there is something utterly attractive about the settler movement, or any truly righteous community. and this is the great conflict that "we" leftist intellectuals face: how to carry our briefcase of philosophical enlightenment and cultural relativism in one hand, and our duffle bag ideals of a loving, harmonious, community of brotherhood in the other?? the kibbutz movement has unfortunately come to an end, and no longer inspires young men and women around the world. so what remains?
"cultivate your own garden" as voltaire once wrote? an enlightened answer to modernism's isolating tendencies in the face of historical injustice.
or "cultivate each other's garden (but be prepared to put up fences every once and a while)" -me
sent you an email - didn't know you knew Mr. Small was there too. I am excited to read about your existential travels.
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