Contributor Archives: Judd Weinberg

About Judd Weinberg

Judd was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1983 and immigrated to Australia as an infant. He attended Moriah College, Sydney’s largest Orthodox Jewish day school, graduating in 2001 as College Captain and second dux. Not one for Anglo sterility and plasticity, Judd has since travelled extensively overseas. A passionate Labor Zionist, Judd finally made aliyah at the end of June, enrolling at Tel Aviv University to finish his Bachelor of Arts degree as part of an exchange program and then begin a Masters in Middle Eastern History. Judd holds dear the ideals of social democracy, the separation of religion and state and the imminent coming of the Second Altalena.

The Second Altalena

By Judd Weinberg Democracy seems to be the “in” word these days – the answer to all the world’s ills, particularly when applied to the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Utopian, to say the least. History is usually shaped by a bold, visionary few rather than the scared masses – by people like David Ben-Gurion, one of the founders of Israel and a diehard Zionist and above all a brutal realist who did what needed to be done to ensure the survival of the State of Israel, …

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