“Take your son, your only one, the one you love, Yitzhak…” (Gen 22:2)
Just as the biblical story of the Akeidah (the binding of Isaac) perplexes us and forces us to ask difficult questions, so too, does Israeli society struggle – as it has for two decades –
“And God said to Abraham: 'Go from your land, your birthplace, and your father's house...'" (Genesis12:2) – To what may this be compared? To a man who was traveling from place to place when he saw a palace in flames. He wondered: "Is it possible that the
Do today’s Diaspora Jews see themselves as living in a Diaspora? And if not, how do we define our relationship to the Jewish State and the Zionist enterprise?
And they spread an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying: 'The land, through which we have passed to spy it, is a land that devours it inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
It was 70 years ago this week, according to the Hebrew calendar, that a young Jewish girl named Hannah Senesh was executed by firing squad by the Hungarian-Nazi police force. She had been captured after parachuting into Europe with a group of Jewish
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