Education about the Shoah Won’t Stop Anti-Semitism
Using dead Jews as symbols isn’t helping living ones.
April 5, 2023
Why God Gave His People a Land of Their Own
A sense of belonging.
While the Hebrew Bible’s vision of the Jews’ ideal future involves them settled securely in the Land of Israel, Joshua Berman notes that the text nowhere describes the land itself as “holy.” Berman argues that having a distinct territory gives a people a sense of “belonging and being part of a family and part of a culture,” one especially pronounced when people have the shared experience of fighting, and even losing their loved ones, in defense of their homeland. Drawing on both the Tanakh and contemporary Israeli society, he explains why this is so.
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In a Changing World, Japan Has Much to Gain from an Alliance with Israel
Energy, technology, and security.
Iran Recruits Pakistanis to Kill Jews in Europe
Close Tehran-Islamabad relations may be responsible.
Why God Gave His People a Land of Their Own
A sense of belonging.
The 1904 Version of the Seder Service Credited with Reviving Passover Observance in the U.S.
The “haggadah in a new dress.”