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Making History
Some personal memories of landmark historical moments. Map of Gush Etzion, 1947: Some twenty kilometers from Jerusalem, nestled between Bethlehem and Hebron and among numerous Arab villages, were the...
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The Siege and Fall of Gush Etzion
View of the reconstructed Kfar Etzion Courtesy of the Kfar Etzion Archives During the months bridging the vote on the partition plan (November 29, 1947) and the birth of the State of Israel (May 15,...
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Ben-Gurion: A Political Life
Ben-Gurion: A Political Life By Shimon Peres with David Landau Schocken Books New York, 2011 252 pages The life story of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, is interesting enough on its...
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Prayers for the Welfare of the State and for the Welfare of the State of Israel
Prayers for the Welfare of the State and for the Welfare of the State of Israel By Rabbi Avraham Steinberg Yad HaRav Herzog, OU Press This slim volume packs a major spiritual punch. Rabbi Avraham...
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On and Off the Beaten Track in … Gush Etzion
There is no area in Israel that more symbolizes the flow of Jewish history than the Gush Etzion region, situated just fifteen minutes south of Jerusalem. And as Israel prepares to celebrate its...
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And Yet….
One of the most hackneyed things one can say about Israel is that it is a land of contrasts, which is, perhaps, a polite way of saying that it is a land of contradictions; and that, in turn, may be a...
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Judea and Identity
I Almost 2,000 years ago our forebears were uprooted from Judea. Though dispersed and scattered throughout the world, They continuously and persistently remained rooted in Judea. They cherished Judea....
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A Love Story in Anticipation of a Happy Ending
Twenty years ago Jewish Action devoted the better part of an issue to analyzing “Israel at Forty.” At the time, the mood was cautiously optimistic and there was a strong sense of Jewish unity....
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Dream or Disappointment?
The Jewish State was conceived in dreams—dreams of a glorious past and hopes for an even more glorious future. Only dreamers, disdainful of reality and inspired by Messianic visions,...
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On and Off the Beaten Track at… Independence Hall
Heichal Ha’atzmaut, Independence HallPhoto: Sasson Tiram The aspirations of our people to return home and re-establish Jewish independence in the Land of Israel, preserved tenaciously through 2,000...
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Rabbi Chanan Porat: The Shofar Is Silent
Rabbi Chanan Porat, circa 1988. Photo: Sa’ar Ya’acov/Israel Government Press Office “A ‘Sabbath Jew’ he was—not because he showed his Jewishness once a week, but because his entire life was one of...
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Making History
Some personal memories of landmark historical moments. Map of Gush Etzion, 1947: Some twenty kilometers from Jerusalem, nestled between Bethlehem and Hebron and among numerous Arab villages, were the...
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The Koren Mahzor for Yom Haatzma’ut and Yom Yerushalayim
Translation by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Koren Publishers ~ Jerusalem, 2015 Reviewed by Shaul Robinson There is a long and not especially successful history of attempts to popularize a Yom Ha’atzmaut...
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Just Between Us: Loving the Land
Photo: Yehoshua Halevi By Aryeh Z. Ginzberg This year, since Yom Ha’atzmaut falls so soon after Pesach, we decided to include this article in our Pesach edition. Almost a year ago, I received a call...
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