There is something touching in Hazony\’s underlying thesis: that Israeli Jews have lost contact with the guiding ideal of Zionism; namely, the belief in the existence of a Jewish state.
The Norton Simon Museum surveys Pablo Picasso\’s long, prolific career as a printmaker.
My son Gershom just graduated from Brandeis University, and my wife and I traveled 3,500 miles, of course, to hear his address, as class speaker, to a throng in excess of 5,000 people. (He received a standing ovation.)
Why is another group of Americans leaving the most powerful and prosperous nation on the planet to move to a small, distant state and become Israelis by choice?
Over the past two decades, Israel has slowly and painfully learned a whole degree course of lessons from its adventures in Lebanon.
Deep down I knew that I had begun, quite consciously, the difficult task of becoming my own person, and wanted time and space in which to sort things out. At camp, without much effort, I had that chance.
Not unlike an electrical socket, the 26-year-old comic has become a regular fixture at the intimate boiler room level of Luna Park, home of the hip Uncabaret that has become an incubator for many a local rising stand-up star.
Last week the two giants of Jewish activism took the bimah at B\’nai David-Judea to look into the Jewish future, to decipher how to strengthen and expand the Jewish community.
The Israeli security zone in Lebanon was that kind of a place – slightly makeshift, slightly madcap, part killing field, part theater of the absurd, a place where everything goes and everything went.
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