Despite increasing talk of a "clash of civilizations" and "religious wars," as well as the marked rise in anti-Islam or anti-Semitic hate crimes, we are seeing cracks in concepts that some assume to be totally rigid, like West and East or Jews and Muslims. All of these groups differ and disagree amongst themselves and splinter. Their inclination to do so can always grow, just as it could shrink, while actions and policies of this or that kind determine which of these contradictory trajectories ends up prevailing.
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Opinion: The alarming notion that a majority in the Knesset should be able to legislate at will, subject to no review or limitation, would have given rise to fierce opposition by the great halakhists across the generations