Sublime

One of the most fascinating chapters in the history of the State of Israel concerns the contribution of young Israeli scientists to the security of the newly established State. The term Cheil Mada (the Science Corps)—or HEMED, as it was known—remains largely unknown. Only a handful of members of today’s generation are aware that David Ben-Gurion

God has a special relationship to Israel yet ultimately remains the Lord of all the vast universe, the Lord of Lords. Therefore, the covenant is not restricted to Jews. The covenant was offered before there were Jews in the world.

Barbara Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian, once observed that of all the peoples of the world from three thousand years ago, it is only the Jews who live in the same place, speak the same language, and practice the same religion.

Leo Strauss and Hasidic master Yoel Teitelbaum have therefore argued that Zionism (or at least political Zionism) is in some respect anti-Judaism (or at least anti-rabbinic Judaism).

Jews are one quarter of 1 percent of the world population. Yet they make up almost 30 percent of the world’s Nobel Prize winners. Such achievement is not bred in the genes. It is a product of centuries of insistence on the gift of the human mind. The great heroes of Jewish spirituality always include scholars and sages.

Abraham ibn Daud.

If in Israel Jews were ungovernable, in the Diaspora they were unconquerable.

That is why we chose to express our mission in the form of a question: will we have Jewish grandchildren?