. This essay originally appeared in The Times of Israel, July 3, 2012. Is it too fanciful to imagine that Germany might wait, say, a thousand years, the length of an eponymously termedTausendjähriges Reich, before any governmental body in that country could feel sufficiently conscientiously liberated as to actually restrict a Jewish religious rite, i.e. […]
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