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Why Israel is so united

David Suissa August 4, 2014

You would think that the global outcry against Israel in the wake of the human devastation of Gaza would have had an effect on Israeli self-esteem.

I believe Amos Oz desperately wanted to become a better man than his father was. It feels as if he has spent his lifetime trying to nurture inside himself an empathy that he believed his father lacked.

Opinion: Amos Oz inspires J Street conference in Washington, D.C.

Rabbi John Rosove March 28, 2012

“The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a pure tragedy of Greek proportions…because it is a clash between right and right…between two nations who have never known another homeland.”

Amos Oz: The Prophet

Rob Eshman November 18, 2009

Last Friday evening, I arrived early for a Shabbat event at American Jewish University, where I was supposed to interview Israeli writer Amos Oz in front of some 300 guests.

‘My Judaism Is the Civilization’

Eric Silver March 4, 1999

Amos Oz, Hebrew novelist, secular prophet and self-proclaimed \”non-synagogue\” Jew, has joined his local Reform congregation in Arad, the Negev desert town where he has lived since leaving Kibbutz Hulda a decade ago.