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Gershon Hepner

Gershon Hepner

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Heretics and Renegades, Judaism Sans Zionism

The heretic throws out the dirty water, the renegade throws out the baby. Both of them have fuses that are shorter than skeptics who don’t throw out...

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Gershon Hepner

The Bread of Affliction

Some people start their seder saying “Ha”, ha lahma anya, this is the bread of the affliction our ancestors consumed in Egypt, a faith-inspired...

31.03.2026 40

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Philosemitically Fourscoring

Abraham Lincoln residentially most philosemiticaly antisemites poetically shames, in accordance with the Bible once commissioned by King James, in...

24.03.2026 40

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Mud and Matsohs Make a Man Seem Nuts

The poor man’s schlepping a big bag of flour he’s bought for the Hag of Passover, to bake his matzohs. The road is muddy.   “Must be nuts!”...

17.03.2026 40

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Spielbergian Sharks’ Preservation in a Noir Netflixed Stream

Micronesia, saving sharks, is establishing sea parks. It’s not their jaws grotesque with grins that endangers sharks. Their fins provoke the jihad...

12.03.2026 60

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Not Burgerlich or Balabuttish

Not regarding civically correct Germanically—burgerlich—or Hebraically homely—-balabuttish, both Donald Trump of USA and Friedrich Merz, a...

04.03.2026 60

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Spurning A Spear

Spurning his spear to kill his deadly rival, Saul, David contrasts most favorably with Hagen, who kills Siegfried in an attack in which Wagner’s...

25.02.2026 70

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False Milk

05.02.2026 40

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I Am Who I Am and the Reflectivity of Prayer

16.01.2026 40

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Gershon Hepner

Stories and Lies

24.12.2025 80

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Suffering As Sunflowers and Suffering Servants Do

19.12.2025 60

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Gershon Hepner

Schocken, Goethe’s Faust and Rabbi Nahman

10.12.2025 60

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Gershon Hepner

The Banished Prince in the Forest Hears Laughter

27.11.2025 30

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Phylacteries and Totaphot

08.08.2025 50

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Gregorian Chant, Beethoven and Sonic Antisemitic Signs

06.06.2025 50

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Gershon Hepner

Enoch Powell and Donald Trump

23.05.2025 60

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Gershon Hepner