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1/ Last year I read Moment magazine's Five Books Project (momentmag.com/five-books-pro…) - which asks prominent Tribespeople which 5 books are essential to be an educated Jew.
To put it mildly, this topic is right in my wheelhouse (book maven, rabbi, PhD in Jewish Studies)
To put it mildly, this topic is right in my wheelhouse (book maven, rabbi, PhD in Jewish Studies)
2/ The basic question is: "which books I should read to be an 'educated Jew'" & it's variously interpreted. Initially, I was being cute: Bible, Babylonian Talmud, Jerusalem Talmud, Mishnah Torah, Shulchan Arukh.
But that's actually a poor answer.
But that's actually a poor answer.
3/ Ya see, I'm a book guy, but 80% of my vast library are reference books. I've read, cover-to-cover, 20% of my library (& 5%+ of my books I haven't even opened, oy)
The Moment shyla is abt reading, not owning. So for my 5 Books I needed to set real rules if I want to be useful
The Moment shyla is abt reading, not owning. So for my 5 Books I needed to set real rules if I want to be useful
Corbyn has said so many things over the course of his career that it really isn't necessary for anyone to guess his opinions on Jews or Israel. Let's take a look, his Zionist irony comments were made at a PRC conference with Daud Abdullah & @ifamericansknew & Alan Hart 
But in the scheme of things that's nothing. He has this OCD thing about making distinctions between different kinds of Jews, even when his brothers in Hamas make no such distinction; note the below from the Hamas Charter as compared with Corbyn's own comments
Implicit in the argument that conflating Jews and Zionists is something negative is the idea that Zionists or supporters of Israel are fair game for attack. At the launch of the Chakrabarti Report, a report that whitewashed the issue of Labour antisemitism, Corbyn said:
