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By attributing so much importance to a US president’s decision to recognize Jerusalem, Israelis reinforce the perception that we are more interested in gaining favor with the West than with resolving our conflict with the Palestinians and becoming an organic part of the region.
Why do so many of the Jewish community’s best and brightest young adults end up joining anti-Israel movements when they get to college?
The windows of the Synogogue at נופי נחמיה look out onto the mountains of Samaria. From where I stand in the בית כנסת, I can…
Jewish women today have sacrificed many of their authentic values without even being aware of it. My experience teaching young Jewish women has taught…
Israel’s historiographic tradition of cyclical rather than linear interpretations of historical events, reveals how these events echo our national history.
Spoken word on the Jewish liberation struggle.
For AIPAC, the US-Israel relationship seems more important than a strong and independent Israel or the actual historic aspirations of the Jewish people.
A ‘narrative’ is a version of reality – a story told about a chain of events that organizes facts while being influenced by ideology. The same chain of events can be organized into many narratives, especially if influenced by different ideologies.
The idea of history as a cyclical – rather than linear – progression is deeply embedded in the Jewish people’s national consciousness & worldview.
Hey, It ain’t Europe Here Here it’s Israel – get used to it Baby, It ain’t Europe Here Here it’s a mess, the old…
Until now we’ve defined a ‘Jewish state’ as one that places superficial Jewish decorations over a European-style nation state. But this can never satisfy our country’s fastest growing populations.
As an Israeli Jew, I have always taken for granted my own indigeneity to my homeland. I am indigenous not only because I was…
