In mid-August 1973, I and a handful of other Washington University students began our Junior Year abroad program at Hebrew University in Jerusalem with two months of language classes (Ulpan). This preceded the regular academic year, set to start in mid-October after the Jewish holidays. Still, my Hebrew remained fairly rudimentary.
The late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote about Jews, that “No small people is more diverse, ethnically, culturally, attitudinally and religiously.” Nowhere is this more evident than in the political turmoil that has engulfed Israel in recent weeks, a turmoil that is in large part a result of the system of proportional representation that the Israeli
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