We won’t dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We’d rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill.
A review that makes me crave “Hebrew literature’s first novel” (especially the footnotes)…
“ERETZ AVOSEINU: A Tour Guide for The Religious Jewish Visitor” (1999) by Sholom Dov Steinberg, Yaakov TurnheimIt bursts with Chibas Ha’aretz and scholarship, has great paper, covers many high points of our country, and contains detailed driving and even walking instructions, viz. “take 25 steps down and look left…” (these may be obviated and superseded somewhat by new construction and cheap GPS).This deserves more, but it’s not in front of me. Even the rectangular shape was planned to be easy to hold!I never saw anything else in English even coming close.
A Jewish person is beginning to suspect perhaps, just maybe, Germany doesn’t love the Jews all that much (Ashkenaz. I know, a shocker!). (And not just anyone, but a “community head“, the type of person who usually gives up last.)
Now he has made his feelings public while still in the beloved Fatherland, I just hope der gemütliche Deutsche public servants don’t politely give him sudden “unavoidable” trouble with his personal passport, Jäh?
UPDATE: Another Jewish leader gives a similar picture, complete with facts and figures in a Spiegel\Spiegel interview.
