Tzachi Yaffe
“AGAMON HULA: CHAOS,” 2015
Cranes at the Hula Nature Reserve in Upper Galilee, Israel. “Agamon Hula: Chaos” is part of the international exhibition “Passage to Israel,” which opens on March 8 at the Sagamore Hotel in the South Beach area of Miami Beach, as part of a three-month “Peace 70” initiative (passagetoIsrael.org).
An uproar over an article showing discrimination against Jewish and Israeli writers dramatizes how ideology and politics prevail over truth.
Israelis are an impatient bunch, but their political processes can drag on and on – and on.
Saudi Arabia’s growing vulnerability presents Israel – and the United States – with an opportunity to deepen the partnership between two of the region’s most important forces against extremism.
On October 27, Israelis will elect the 26th Knesset. A week later, on November 3, Americans will vote in pivotal midterm elections.
Shattering as it’s been, there’s something to be said for this abrupt return to biblicalness. By this awkward word I don’t mean belief in religion, necessarily, but appreciation for values that have fallen into disfavor in our supposedly enlightened age.
Israeli officials spent much of the day examining whether the incident aboard Flight FZ1073 was an attempted terrorist attack.
Here was an extraordinary chain of people of different nationalities whose actions resulted in lives being saved.
While we cannot choose when darkness comes, each one of us can choose how we respond to it.
In an instant, Mr. Lander went from being a fellow protester to being treated by some in the crowd as morally disqualified because of one word attached to him: “Zionist.”
In our upside-down world, where truth is murdered by ideology, empathy is not merely lacking: it has been corrupted.
Pete Seeger, a brilliant lyricist, based the song “Turn! Turn! Turn!” on one of the Bible’s books of wisdom, Ecclesiastes, which was just read in synagogues across the globe over the Shabbat of Sukkot.
We do not actually sing the melody exactly as Tanchum wrote it.
There is room for every Jew. No one should be dismissed because his or her gifts have not yet become visible. No one should conclude that his or her contribution does not matter.
This is how we honor the memory of our ancestors, elevate our children, and fulfill our mission to heal the world
If Bibi is unable to persuade enough Israelis to his side on the Haredi or West Bank settlements, he is the unparalleled master at rallying his country to stand together against their enemies.
While the atrocity of Oct. 7 is viscerally lodged in my memory, there is one thing I’ve been trying very hard to forget.
Three generations. Two continents. One Brit connecting them all.
Where and how did we end up with all these truly idiotic, morally obtuse celebrity Jews? Did none of them go to college, or is it that they didn’t know how to stand up to their antisemitic, Islamist professors?
