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Here in Jewish law is the logic of civil disobedience, the idea that we have a duty to disobey an immoral order.
Jonathan Sacks • Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 8)
Rafi Eitan, the son of Jewish pioneers from Russia, was seventeen at the time. “Here come exultant Germans, who had been members of the Nazi Party, who enlisted to the Wehrmacht and SS, and they want to return to their property when all the Jewish property outside was destroyed,” he said. Eitan was a member of a seventeen-man force from the Haganah
... See moreRonen Bergman • Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Dagan was assigned to the paratroopers and served in the brigade recon unit. He underwent an infantry officer’s course and was discharged with the rank of lieutenant in 1966. In the Six-Day War, he was called up for reserve duty and served as the commander of a paratroop company. He fought first in Sinai and then on the Golan Heights. “Suddenly we
... See moreRonen Bergman • Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
À Battery Park chaque samedi après-midi, je dégustais la tribune hebdomadaire du professeur Lessig. Jeune avocat spécialiste de droit d’auteur, il était la caution morale de l’Internet. Son étoile du Berger. En pleine extase capitaliste, il s’acharnait dans le rôle du rabat-joie de service. Dès 1997, dans un article ravageur « Code is law », il ava
... See moreFlore Vasseur • Ce qu'il reste de nos rêves (LITTERATURE (NO) (French Edition)
Reb avait tout cela à cette époque. Il était encore autre chose : il ne prenait jamais part à aucune discussion sur le futur État juif. En cela, il rejoignait Dov Lazarus. Pour Lazarus, toute politique était abstraction et il ne vivait que pour l’action.
Paul-Loup Sulitzer • Le roi vert (French Edition)

The combination of deregulation and digitization erased the legal and ethical distinction between interpersonal communication and broadcast communication that had governed media in the twentieth century.