Metallic Blues

Shmuel Goldberg is a 40-something Israeli, the son of Holocaust survivors, who was raised with an aversion to all things German — German products, German culture. And of course, he was taught never to visit Germany.

But when a man enters his used car lot wanting to sell a collector’s-item 1985 metallic blue Lincoln Continental, which would bring in a cool profit if Shmuel would only transport the car to Germany for resale, Shmuel smells a “big score”… and can’t resist. (more…)

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Chapter 4: The Jewish People’s story, the modern period

Towards the finishing line

We live in a modern Jewish world.  The world that existed before modernity was a very different kind of a world, organized in a totally different way, based on different premises.  In this chapter we are going to try and survey the changes in the Jewish world and the reasons for those changes. 

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