Terrorism Is a Moral Choice, Not an Expression of “Spiritual Misery”
Acts of murder are not chapters in a novel to be parsed.
December 14, 2015
Lighting the menorah in the Gulag.
The yearly cycle of readings from the Torah is arranged so that the story in Genesis of Joseph interpreting Pharaoh’s dreams almost always coincides with Hanukkah. Dore Feith elicits from this reading a hidden message about the holiday and relates it to the story of how the Israeli public figure Natan Sharansky, as an imprisoned Soviet dissident in the 1980s, succeeded in lighting a menorah in the Gulag:
Acts of murder are not chapters in a novel to be parsed.
Israeli occupation of the West Bank is fully legal.
Without a major shift in U.S. strategy, the war will continue.
Lighting the menorah in the Gulag.
Were there miniature sanctuaries even before the Temple was destroyed?
The yearly cycle of readings from the Torah is arranged so that the story in Genesis of Joseph interpreting Pharaoh’s dreams almost always coincides with Hanukkah. Dore Feith elicits from this reading a hidden message about the holiday and relates it to the story of how the Israeli public figure Natan Sharansky, as an imprisoned Soviet dissident in the 1980s, succeeded in lighting a menorah in the Gulag:
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