The Israel Story: An Uneasy Balance Between Surviving and Thriving
These security threats have been so all-consuming, and the human losses so devastating, settling for simply survival would seem to only compound the losses.
David Suissa is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Tribe Media/Jewish Journal, where he has been writing a weekly column on the Jewish world since 2006. In 2015, he was awarded first prize for "Editorial Excellence" by the American Jewish Press Association. Prior to Tribe Media, David was founder and CEO of Suissa Miller Advertising, a marketing firm named “Agency of the Year” by USA Today. He sold his company in 2006 to devote himself full time to his first passion: Israel and the Jewish world. David was born in Casablanca, Morocco, grew up in Montreal, and now lives in Los Angeles with his five children.
These security threats have been so all-consuming, and the human losses so devastating, settling for simply survival would seem to only compound the losses.
The only miracles we should settle for are the sober, humble ones; the miracles where we must slowly and deliberately light one lonely candle at a time.
It is this quintessential Jewish idea—refusing to settle for easy victimhood—that most threatens the anti-America, victim-worshipping DEI movement that is poisoning American culture.
This Jewish trait drives Jew haters nuts because it’s not land-related, it has nothing to do with race or skin color, and it goes directly against the leftist narrative of Jews as the ultimate white oppressors.
In the past few weeks, a crack has opened in American academia, exposing a poison that undermines the very ideals of higher education: political ideology.
This blatant discrimination is the inevitable result of progressive, anti-West DEI bureaucracies that have permeated academia and are anything but diverse and inclusive.
While we continue to extinguish the “five-alarm fire” Senator Schumer talked about, let’s light up the America that thinks Jews are really cool.
When we realize that nothing has a finish line, not the light nor the fight nor our Judaism, it’s a lot easier to follow the universe and embrace all three, whether we live in Tsfat or L.A.
The war in Gaza has decimated the tourist business in Israel, and without tourists, the galleries of Tsfat are like houses of prayer without worshippers.
From its inception, Israel has lived in tension between the impulse to protect its body and the impulse to express its soul.