Celebrating the 28th of Shvat
byBefore Rome destroyed Jerusalem, Israel’s calendar had several festivals commemorating Maccabean victories. The story of our 26 year guerrilla war is actually so much bigger than just Ḥanukah.
Leḥi Wasn’t a Zionist Organization
byOne of the fundamental teachings of Yair to his Leḥi comrades was that a freedom fighter doesn’t fight to be free. He is able to fight because he’s already free.
7 Facts About Yair on the 25th of Shvat
byStern was a revolutionary poet who inspired a liberation movement that restored Jewish independence to our land after nearly 2,000 years.
Protest Against Police Violence in Tel Aviv
byThousands of Ethiopian Jews and many allies demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Wednesday against police violence targeting their community. The protest was in response…
Yair
byHistory is almost always advanced by the visionaries willing to dream & act while the herd merely sleeps.
Unknown Soldiers Remixed
bySHI 360’s remix of Yair’s classic חיילים אלמונים (Unknown Soldiers), that became the anthem of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (Leḥi) during their anti-colonial struggle against British rule.
Parshat Mishpatim
byIsrael being a ‘kingdom of priests and a holy nation’ necessitates the sanctification of individual, interpersonal and national life so as to give earthly expression to the Torah’s lofty spiritual values.
Keep Your Holocaust Remembrance Day
byBy choosing this date, the nations who aided in the genocide of our people have now essentially recast themselves as the heroes who came to our rescue.
Guard Duty, 3:55pm
bySparrows clipped like clothespins to the hoary bramble sprawling between the bars of sun-bleached iron industrial grey and gentle slate to them the melding…
Unpacking Ideologies: Reductionism, Empiricism
byTranscript: Okay, so reductionism is when you take a phenomenon and you try to reduce it down to its principles and, sort of, its…
Parshat Yitro
byThe Torah is not a ‘religion’ relegated to the houses of study or prayer. Nor is it a set of rules meant to coercively modify human behavior.
Blood Moon
byThere was in its eyes a glow the pale shimmer of curling mist at the edges of the sea an irradiated grimace not quite…