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On Holocaust Day, we mourn the consequences of powerlessness; on Memorial Day, we mourn the consequences of power.
Yossi Klein Halevi • Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
Jewish religious life has brought forth people who do not fear arraigning even God when there is injustice.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
THE REBIRTH OF HEBREW was yet another of Zionism’s early revolutions.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Mordechai Berkowitz, a blacksmith, established a workshop
Nechama Tec • Defiance
A sequence of blows, some of them almost deadly, teaches the outstanding movement that its surrounding environment is extremely cruel.
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
“Even unavoidable occupation is corrupting occupation,” he wrote soon after the war in a column for Davar, then the Labor Party newspaper. It was a position he would espouse, along with other Israeli novelists like David Grossman, for decades.*