Israel and Anne Frank’s Jewishness
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the New Israel Fund announced it signed a partnership agreement with Anne Frank Fonds, the foundation Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, established in 1963 to administer the profits from the sales of her diary.
Yom HaShoah — Jewish Life or Just Israeli Life?
Happily, a large number of Israelis realize this, and although many of them are not Orthodox or even religious, they try hard to bring some inner Jewishness to their lives and observe some traditions, because they know that Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was right and A.B. Yehoshua is wrong.
Demography and Jewish Destiny
We are standing on the cusp of a tidal wave of return, one that will see countless Jewish descendants reconnect with Jewry. Let’s embrace this opportunity.
Israel’s True Strength and Gift to the World is Unity
“Israel among the nations is like a heart among the organs. And as the organs of the body cannot exist in the world even a minute without the heart, all the other nations cannot exist in the world without Israel.” – The Zohar, Pinhas, item 152 The tension on the Israel-Gaza border that materialized as […]
Ronald Lauder Turns on Israel
It is impossible to know why Lauder just abandoned Israel. But he did. He didn’t administer tough love. He turned his guns on the Jewish state while insisting that he loves it.
Plato’s Haggadah in the ‘Dialogues’
Now that Jews all over the world will once again assemble around the seder table and read the Haggadah — the story of the exodus from Egypt — it may be worthwhile to put some thought into the art of reading.
Zionist ‘Nachas’
For more than two-thirds of our national existence, Jews were without an army of their own.
What is a Refugee? The Jews From Morocco Vs. the Palestinians From Israel
Today, Morocco’s Jewish population is less than 5,000, as contrasted with 250,000 at its peak.
Who Still Sees the Wonder of Judaism?
We need people who can teach us to take off our mask — which by now has merged with our skin — and show us the original glow of God’s word, as Moshe did.
Why Do the Arabs Hate the Palestinians So?
The Arab world, for many reasons, is not at all interested in giving the Palestinian Arabs a state. The Palestinian Arabs don’t really want one either, because why kill the “refugee” goose that lays the golden eggs?