bnewman | (Reply)

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Worse, the conflict we commemorate on Chanukah wasn't primarily between my ancestors and their external oppressors — it was between Jews who wanted a culture free of outside influences and Jews who wanted to be part of a larger world culture. The Maccabees may, at that moment in history, have been right about what they had to do to preserve the Jewish people, but that doesn't make them any less like the Taliban.

...well that's a depressing insight.

I'm gonna have to think about that for a bit.