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The true reality is the compilation of the smaller realities experienced by every human being. The greater, higher Truth is one that accepts, embraces, and makes space for all the smaller, personal truths.
Authors prologue to set the stage Very few books on the festivals of Israel include May Day. But Rabbi Menaḥem Froman’s “Give me Time”…
One cannot deny the deep and complex emotional reactions of Jews to a flaming Notre Dame.
The moment Jews have power, we can no longer concern ourselves only with self-preservation. Power must shift our focus from that of an object with a problem to a subject with desires.
To mark the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Menaḥem Froman, please enjoy an English translation of a piece he originally published in Haaretz on July 22, 2005 – less than one month before all Jews were forcibly expelled from the Gaza region.
Those attending the AIPAC Policy Conference in DC should ask some very important questions about Jewish liberation and the US-Israel relationship.
The objective shouldn’t have been greater proximity to power – to replace Haman with Mordekhai as prime minister – but rather the dismantling of an unjust system and a mass return to Jerusalem.
It’s difficult to believe that Israel once offered a political option for voters who would today feel torn between Ḥadash and the national religious parties.
The schism between the Western & Hebrew cultural gap is profound in Israeli society. It’s worth thinking hard about which side of the divide is truly free.
Stern was a revolutionary poet who inspired a liberation movement that restored Jewish independence to our land after nearly 2,000 years.
History is almost always advanced by the visionaries willing to dream & act while the herd merely sleeps.
The reconstruction of identities and meanings happens again and again in our people’s history.