stephen schecter
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stephen schecter
- Mar 16
- 1 min
Judicial reform in Israel: the left mounts a coup d'état
Please check out my recent piece on this subject on substack and tell your friends about it too. You can subscribe there directly for...
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stephen schecter
- Feb 27
- 1 min
A tale of two books
I have published a new piece on substack about Dara Horn's People Love Dead Jews and Joshua Cohen's The Netanyahu's. You can read it by...
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stephen schecter
- Feb 1
- 1 min
Follow me on substack
I have started to write on substack. You might want to check me out there and subscribe. The link is schecter.substack.com. My latest...
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stephen schecter
- Dec 14, 2022
- 10 min
The ambassador and the historian
I first met the ambassador on a trip to Israel. The trip was more a mission as the Jews like to call these trips, in this case organized...
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stephen schecter
- Dec 2, 2022
- 15 min
Democracy and what it is not
In sociology, as in other sciences, there was a school of thought called functionalism. As with medicine, this signalled a step forward....
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stephen schecter
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Yom Hazikaron
Yom Hazikaron, 2015 So many fallen soldiers Like so much broken glass Steep the land in sorrow And make the heavens brass. Is this the...
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stephen schecter
- May 1, 2022
- 9 min
Homeless
Growing old, he told me, was like traveling in a foreign country. He had written that to his aunt after spending a considerable number of...
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stephen schecter
- Jul 20, 2021
- 10 min
The curtain falls
I subscribe to a daily briefing from the Canadian Institute of Jewish Research. Today I read, courtesy of the Post Millennial, that the...
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stephen schecter
- Jun 2, 2021
- 13 min
Jerking Off in Gaza (2): Jewish complicity, Jewish history
I am too old to masturbate, but not too old to recognize when jerking off is going on. And that of course is exactly what went on in this...
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stephen schecter
- May 28, 2021
- 9 min
Jerking Off in Gaza (1): The War Criminals of the West
Here we go again was what I thought when the rockets started raining down on Israel from Gaza, accompanied by the usual rhetoric about...
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stephen schecter
- Apr 4, 2021
- 8 min
Pour Edouard
He was my boyhood friend. He lived across the street from me until we moved when I was eight and my life changed forever. I spent many...
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stephen schecter
- Sep 27, 2020
- 11 min
The Biblical heartland of Deuteronomy
Dan. Dan toran. The words are a transliteration from the Hebrew. In Hebrew the a is pronounced as the a in father, and the stress in the...
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stephen schecter
- Aug 29, 2020
- 16 min
Evening in America
I first met them on a sidewalk outside a friend’s house at the end of a party. She was somewhat drunk and he was comforting her. I could...
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stephen schecter
- Jul 21, 2020
- 9 min
Zimbabwe at the Park Board
The City of Vancouver’s Park Board held consultations recently on a proposed by-law to permit people to camp overnight in public parks....
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stephen schecter
- Jun 15, 2020
- 13 min
American orgy
American orgy Out of the Hebrew history books came my mother and her family, from the plains of Cossack carnage where horse and rider...
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stephen schecter
- May 22, 2020
- 7 min
Watching Fauda
I had been reluctant to watch Fauda when I read that the series depicted the relationship between an Israeli security officer and his...
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stephen schecter
- Apr 30, 2020
- 7 min
What to do about China?
“O the striped and vigorous tiger can move with style through the borough of murder.” Thus wrote Auden in 1939. “Secret ruses can hide in...
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stephen schecter
- Apr 20, 2020
- 6 min
Blind spots and other matters
Modern societies are inclusive societies. They need to be in order to function. No functional area of social life can work if the people...
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stephen schecter
- Apr 14, 2020
- 6 min
Observations on the Pandemic (III)
Yesterday a friend phoned to wake me up and ask how I was. He wanted to talk because we have not seen each other for at least ten days...
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