
"The beginning of wisdom is -- acquire wisdom." A blog for those of us seeking to do so.
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I’ve paused paid subscriptions on this Substack, as I don’t have much time for writing at the moment with a young baby (no longer ill, thankfully, but still demanding, especially as I’m five-sevenths of a stay-at-home father at the moment)...
I started writing this as a note on a restack of ’s piece on would-be Trump assassin, Cole Tomas Allen, but it was one of those notes that ran away with itself (or with me) and I’m posting as a mini-post.
Assassination has become a serious...
They tried to burn down my shul (synagogue).
You may have seen that there has been a spate of antisemitic arson attacks in London in the last few weeks, possibly connected to an Islamist group with links to Iran. Two synagogues, four ambul...
A Way of Thinking
Anyone familiar with the discourse around Israel, antizionism and antisemitism, will be aware of the recurrence of certain tropes in antizionist and antisemitic writing. Sometimes these are openly antisemitic, such as the...
In which I ask where my loyalties lie
This post is for paid subscribers only, as I feel a bit guilty that I’ve produced so little content for you recently, even if for an understandable reason (mildly, but persistently, ill baby). It’s als...
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A Jew in London, writing about Israel, antisemitism and the decline of the West on my Substack, The Beginning of Wisdom as well as sharing Torah insights on my second Substack, Living Jewishly.
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