The Six Day War Threatens Western Civilization
byThe Jewish return home suddenly possessed undeniable historic significance – unless the results of the Six Day War could somehow be reversed.
Opinion
Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings… but Truth Does
byThe 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.
From May Day to Yom HaShoah
byAuthors prologue to set the stage Very few books on the festivals of Israel include May Day. But Rabbi Menaḥem Froman’s “Give me Time”…
Notre Dame de Paris in Flames
byOne cannot deny the deep and complex emotional reactions of Jews to a flaming Notre Dame.
Netanyahu Election Commitments Reveal Outdated ‘Zionist’ Logic
byThe 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.
A Primitive ‘Settler’ Like Myself
byTo 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.
Advice for Those Attending the AIPAC Policy Conference
byThose attending the AIPAC Policy Conference in DC should ask some very important questions about Jewish liberation and the US-Israel relationship.
Breaking Free from Aḥashverosh
byThe 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.
There was once a political party
byIt’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.
Loving the Colonizer: St. Valentine, Tu B’Av & the Christian-not-so-Judeo Civilization
byThe 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.
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.
Yair
byHistory is almost always advanced by the visionaries willing to dream & act while the herd merely sleeps.