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Georg Simmel's depiction of the Jew as an absolut formlos that can tolerate any content may be understood as a pure sociation, an ideal of modern society as a site that increasingly consists of highly individuated individuals. Hence, while the definition of the Jew as a \"man without qualities\" led Austrian-Jewish philosopher Otto Weininger on a path to self-destruction and the denial of the capability of Jews for individuality, it led Simmel to self-approval. Nonetheless, both Simmel's and Weininger's theories regarding modernity, mobility, Jewishness, and femininity operated in a consistent and coherent Zeitgeist. Scholem's anecdote about Simmel and Weininger signifies the resemblance between core (scientific) and marginal (pseudoscientific) figures of modern social science, at the moment and place of the discipline's formation. However, the criteria for these definitions remain unclear.

Growing up in apartheid South Africa in the 1950s, I used to complain about racial segregation to my boere - white Afrikaans- speaking - friends. Their answer was: \"A boer [farmer] maak a plan\" meaning that white South Africa had to \"make a plan\" for its cultural and political survival and that plan was apartheid. Sir, - We at AACI (Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel) were concerned by the article \"Poll shows high rate of olim going back\" (October 26). The article could have misled many of your readers, because while the poll in question was not described, it was oriented primarily to immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Sir, - We would like to take this opportunity to recommend Mahmoud Abbas for entry into the Guinness World Book of Records for having the ability to stretch his constant two-week threats and ultimatums regarding Hamas into month-long campaigns in which nothing is ever resolved (\"Hamas has two weeks to form coalition with Fatah, Abbas says,\" October 29). Abbas's unending two-week scenarios should be spelled too weak.