For all the mantras of Jerusalem as \”the undivided, eternal capital of the Jewish people,\” reiterated by every Israeli leader since the Six-Day War, the city has never been monolithic.
My parents were Elderhostel students this week at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, and I shared Friday night services with them in the Conservative tradition of my youth.
The Los Angeles Ulpan is one of the nation\’s oldest Israel trips geared to teenagers.
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.
I had been to Israel before and was on my way there again. I had gotten this \”of course\” business before, from store clerks, bellboys, even strangers on the street, and it didn\’t seem to matter whether or not my question was a stupid one.
Today, schoolchildren in Israel and California can become best friends over the Internet.
I have been reading a fascinating book, \”The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel\’s Soul,\”\”that has set me to thinking about Jewish identity — both in Israel and in the United States.
In late September 1934, Hank Greenberg, the great Detroit Tigers slugger, chose not to play a crucial game against the Yankees so that he could observe Yom Kippur.
I have been reading a fascinating book, \”The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel\’s Soul,\”\”that has set me to thinking about Jewish identity — both in Israel and in the United States.
Changing the way a nation and a people think about themselves is not an easy job. But Yoram Hazony and his Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.-based Shalem Center is attempting to do just that for Israel and the Jews.
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