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Born in 1856 in Ukraine (four years before Herzl’s birth), Asher Zvi Ginzberg took on the pen name Ahad Ha’am (“One of the People”), by which he is
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Justice in the Hebrew Bible is thus more than a matter of law. It restores a broken order.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Natan Sharansky, a world-renowned human rights activist
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
It was April 2024, long before Netanyahu mounted his political comeback. The proposal on the table would have paused the Gaza war for at least six weeks. It would have created a window for negotiations with Hamas over a permanent truce. More than 30 hostages captured by Hamas at the start of the war would have been released within weeks. Still more... See more
The message of the Bible for the politics of the contemporary West is that it is not enough to have a state. You also need a society – meaning, that common belonging that comes from a sense that we are neighbours as well as strangers; that we have duties to one another, to the heritage of the past and to the hopes of generations not yet born; that
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