Creator Bio
Hillel Halkin
b. 1939
Hillel Halkin is a New York–born author, journalist, and Yiddish and Hebrew translator. An active Zionist, he moved to Israel in 1970. He is also a frequent political commentator, often on the Arab–Israeli conflict. His articles are published in Commentary, Forward, the Jerusalem Post, and other journals.
Content by Hillel Halkin
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Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist’s Polemic
[…] That we in Israel are in need of a dose of Jewish soul—that this, as much as sheer survival, with which it is in no small way connected, is a pressing issue of our existence—I readily concede. But…