Here are three things I've learned about Judaism/Israel today:
1. In 1939, the White Papers, written by Great Britain, limited immigration to 15,000 people a year (down from 75,000 a year) to Palestine which is one reason the Holocaust was as terrible as it was.
2. The Jews were once almost temporarily moved to Uganda. It was proposed by Theodore Hertzl in 1903 whose grave we went to last week and whose legacy is immortalized by Brandt Peacock’s adaptation of “Hertzl Good”.
3. The Israeli government is a Parliamentary government. The executive branch is actually a sub-set of the legislature containing ministries (Stephanie: “That’s what we call them in Canada!!”).
I am probably one of the only 79 other people who understand the pain that comes from this post.
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