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I was honored to receive your request to express my opinion on the current question of electing women to the Jewish representative assembly…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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1919
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5703—Because of its horrors, all the preceding years of Hitler will pale in people’s memory, even 5677 [1917] and 5665 [1905], and even 5408 [1648] and 5252 [1492]. In none of these peak years of the…
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Zalman Shazar
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1943
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This book seeks to unfold before the reader the scroll of Jewish valor, in both Israel and the diaspora, from the destruction of the Hebrew state to the harbingers of the renaissance of the…
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Israel Halperin
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1941
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The Falashas of Ethiopia have attracted considerable attention because of their Judaic religious practice, yet the relationship of their liturgy to normative Judaism remains underdetermined. This…
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Kay Kaufman Shelemay
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1986
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We must emphasize the impact Jews are having on the town of Jaffa. Those who knew Jaffa in the past can testify that the town owes a lot to the Jews; its appearance has changed dramatically over the…
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Ze’ev Smilansky
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Jaffa, Israel)
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1906
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. . . We believe that our outlook on social life in general is more refined and purer than that of contemporary civilized nations. Our family is sacred to us in a manner more profound than [is the…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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1920
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Well done! Hatsofeh was the first newspaper in Erets Yisrael to react to the indifference of the public in the Yishuv in general and the administration of the Jewish Agency in particular with regard…
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Elimelech Neufeld
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(Israel, Israel)
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1939
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Rabbi Elhanan related:
“I once asked the Hafetz Chaim:
“Granted that we are accustomed to a division of eras in Jewish religious history—the Tannaitic era separately, and the Amoraic era separately…
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Elhanan Wasserman
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ca. 1939
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This issue was the focus of controversy in eretz yisrael, and the whole land . . . quaked with the…
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Ben-Zion Hai Uziel
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ca. 1920
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We know that a writer has no power except in the pen. Nevertheless there are times when it behooves us to alter the ordinary manner of expression. There are times when the author, too, must depart…
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Asher Barash
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Kefar Shemaryahu, Mandate Palestine
(Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel)
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1944