Harsh Realities on theGround
Over the past two years, Jerusalem alone has beenshaken by two bus bombings and by explosions in the Mahane Yehudamarket and the Ben-Yehuda shopping precinct.
Over the past two years, Jerusalem alone has beenshaken by two bus bombings and by explosions in the Mahane Yehudamarket and the Ben-Yehuda shopping precinct.
Today it is rapidlybecoming clear that Israel has atomized into a number of \”tribes\” –Sephardim, Russians, Ethiopians, ultra-Orthodox, national Orthodoxand secular Ashkenazim.
For four millenia, the Jewish homeland has survived either as dream or reality. A nomadic tribe began migrating into the Land of Canaan in the early second millenium B.C.E. Their history of wandering, exodus and eventual conquest of Canaan, which they renamed Israel, forms the core story of the Bible.