…out of the trauma and tragedy of the earlier decades of the 20th century, Jews redefined their image and reconstructed their roles […]
One of the fundamental issues facing the new spirit of maturity in Israel is: Should Auschwitz or Sinai be the orienting category […]
The Shoah, it seems, has come to be read for portents and interpretation as much as for history itself. Yet one reason […]
The mini (and short lived) spiritual explosion… took place in the 90’s, the era of Oslo, of Yitzhak Rabin, of what seemed […]
So which statistic surprised me? A statistic that, while overlooked by many, says much about the state of contemporary American Jewry. The […]
If “remembering the Holocaust” is an essential part of what it means to be Jewish, then it follows that a substantial core […]
I am actually not interested in simply furthering that we represent the Jewish people. I understand that it was a blip, a […]
There are seven days between Yom HaShoah and Yom Ha’Atzmaut. It is as if the entire country sits shiva, mourning the tragedy […]
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