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Not too long ago, few Jews—or Christians, for that matter—would have had difficulty justifying the existence of a Jewish state. The destruction of European Jewry left a profound impression on the…
Contributor:
Yoram Hazony
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New York City, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
2000
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For many years we have awaited your arrival on our soil. We waited, as we believed that your arrival fulfills our eminent, longing of millennia. To our great pleasure, the joyous day has arrived…
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Ben-Zion Hai Uziel
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1919
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Before we come to the determination of our tasks, we would like to pause for a while to consider the situation of the present moment. We are experiencing here in Palestine a relatively quiet…
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1906
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…The rationalist model related to Jewish history and the Diaspora as accidents that could be corrected. It did not devote much thought to the past, but…
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Anita Shapira
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997
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Why did the American Jewish Congress send a group of its leaders to Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem to meet with leaders there?
The delegation, which met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan’s…
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Henry Siegman
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1985
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It is standard fare at Zionist assemblies to declare that Israel belongs to all Jews, wherever they live. As a ritual to be trotted out on Sabbaths and festivals (and the atmosphere at Zionist…
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Menachem Brinker
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New York City, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1985
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“Secular is a terrible word”; “secular is a word I don’t like,” “there is no such thing as a secular Jew”—these clichés are common among absolutely secular intellectuals when they discuss problems of…
Contributor:
Doron Rosenblum
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985