Sublime

What is striking about Judaism is not just its emphasis on responsibility but its insistence on elaborate support structures.

The settlement freeze, Molcho warned, would mislead Abbas into thinking he could gain more by not negotiating and weaken Netanyahu at the outset of a process for which he would later need immense political strength.

last politics was promising to deliver what centuries of prayer had not: civil rights, social equality, a place in the mainstream of European culture.

Israel would only build in the settlement blocs and in the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem—in accordance with the 2004 Bush-Sharon letter—and proactively improve the lives of the 90 percent of West Bank Palestinians already enjoying de facto independence. “Instead of demanding what each side cannot do, we must ask what each side can,” I concluded

“What the gentiles say is less important than what the Jews do,”

And forty-two years after he had arrived in Palestine, David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium under an enormous portrait of the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl.

the nation of Israel had returned to the lands of the Bible, to the places Jews had read about in their most sacred texts for centuries.

heal.

social justice is indeed a core purpose of Jewish existence.