Lay Down Your Swords 
A Ben-Shmuel A Ben-Shmuel

Lay Down Your Swords 

“Lay down your swords. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.” These words haunt me.

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Rampant Radical Rhetoric
A Ben-Shmuel A Ben-Shmuel

Rampant Radical Rhetoric

Over the past years, I’ve observed a trend in much of my reading (unless it’s classics or specific, rigid genres). What I’m seeing is a movement toward radical forms of expression.

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Musings from a Shared Taxi Ride
A Ben-Shmuel A Ben-Shmuel

Musings from a Shared Taxi Ride

I climbed into the taxi together with an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and ended up sitting between him on the one side and an ultra Orthodox Muslim on the other.

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