“The image of the awful cruelty that tyrannical rulers inflicted upon them,” wrote Orthodox rabbi Aharon Shemu’el Tamares of his fellow Jews in 1912, “is fixed too firmly before their gaze for them to desire to be tyrants themselves and not to keep in their hearts a deep hatred for all other tyrants.” Born into the Russian empire in the late 19th century, Tamares was a firm pacifist and an ardent anti-Zionist, who believed – or, at least,
Judaism After Huwara
Judaism After Huwara
Judaism After Huwara
“The image of the awful cruelty that tyrannical rulers inflicted upon them,” wrote Orthodox rabbi Aharon Shemu’el Tamares of his fellow Jews in 1912, “is fixed too firmly before their gaze for them to desire to be tyrants themselves and not to keep in their hearts a deep hatred for all other tyrants.” Born into the Russian empire in the late 19th century, Tamares was a firm pacifist and an ardent anti-Zionist, who believed – or, at least,