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Israeli Endurance after a Year of War
A touching nobility of purpose.
Daniel Polisar
Daniel Polisar is the executive vice-president and a member of the faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem.
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Observation ·
The Best Books of 2022, Chosen by Mosaic Authors
By Elliott Abrams, Tamara Berens, Andrew Koss, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Sarah Rindner, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Podcast: Daniel Polisar on the First Zionist Congress, 125 Years Later
By Daniel Polisar, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Archaeologist of Jerusalem Who Should Be Counted among Israel’s Founders
Remembering Eilat Mazar.
Response ·
Why Herzl Succeeded Where Those Before Him Failed
By Daniel PolisarIn Rick Richman’s insightful essay “ The Mystery of Theodor Herzl ,” he describes Leon Pinsker’s Auto-Emancipation: An Appeal to His People by a Russian Jew (1882), which argued powerfully for the e...
Observation ·
The Best Books of 2020, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part III)
By Gary Saul Morson, Yehoshua Pfeffer, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)
By Elliott Abrams, Diana Muir Appelbaum, Matti Friedman, Haviv Rettig Gur, Daniel Johnson, Moshe Koppel, Daniel PolisarCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
The Common Sense of Israel’s Voting Public
By Daniel PolisarI am an avid reader of Haviv Rettig Gur, and his latest essay in Mosaic , “ How and Why Israelis Vote ,” is a timely reminder of what makes him so good. In explaining Israel’s April 9 elections a wee...
Observation ·
The Best Books of 2018, Chosen by Mosaic Authors
By Elliott Abrams, Haviv Rettig Gur, Moshe Koppel, Daniel Polisar, Sarah Rindner, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Ruth R. Wisse, David WolpeCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Theodor Herzl’s “The Menorah” and the Connection between Jewish Nationalism and Jewish Faith
For Herzl, Zionism was not merely about providing an escape from anti-Semitism.
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Nationalism, Zionism, and the Jews
What Ernest Renan and Theodor Herzl held in common.
Observation ·
Best Books of the Year, as Selected by Mosaic Authors
By Elliott Abrams, Peter Berkowitz, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Ruth R. Wisse, David WolpeCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
The Most Politically Significant Meeting of Any Group of Jews in the Last 1,800 Years
By Daniel PolisarCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
Why Making Peace with the Palestinians Isn’t Like Making Peace with Egypt and Jordan
By Daniel PolisarI greatly welcome and appreciate the thoughts of Daniel Pipes, Ghaith al-Omari, and Elliott Abrams, the three distinguished respondents to my essay in Mosaic , “Do Palestinians Want a Two-State Solu...
Monthly Essay ·
Do Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution?
By Daniel PolisarWestern statesmen and politicians have long asserted that the two-state solution commands majority support on the ground. Most Palestinians say otherwise.
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Palestinian Public Opinion Helps Drive Terrorist Attacks
“Martyrs” can expect to be heroes.
Observation ·
What Palestinians Think about the Knife Intifada
By Daniel PolisarCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
Why Do Palestinians Believe What They Believe?
By Daniel PolisarThe research for my essay, “What Do Palestinians Want?,” began over a year ago. Its publication in Mosaic coincided, as fate would have it, with a wave of Palestinian knifings, shootings, and car-...
Monthly Essay ·
What Do Palestinians Want?
By Daniel PolisarIt’s time to take a close look at an often ignored subject: what ordinary Palestinians think about Israel, Jews, and terrorist attacks on civilians.
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Israel’s Stiff Upper Lip
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.