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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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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
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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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1939
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I.We resist the penetration of capitalism and mercantilism into Palestine. How can we at this moment in history reconcile that with our conscience? Dare we burden this Zionist undertaking…
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Samuel Hugo Bergmann
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Prague, Czechoslovakia (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1919
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My brothers and teachers: for some years, since I was enlightened by the luminous erudition of our pious forefathers, the rabbis in Babylon and the wise writers from Spain, my attention…
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World Sephardi Federation
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Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1925
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The two hundred and fifty letters presented here require no preliminaries or commentary. No human language is adequate to the task. Even the account of our people’s history, drenched as…
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Berakha Ḥabas
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1943
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The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East was established in 1948 with the aid of three bodies: the General…
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
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1949
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As the day approaches for the election of the Knesset and the local and municipal authorities, Sephardi and oriental Jewish leaders evince increasing alertness to the…
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Avraham Abbas
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1958
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The victory of the IDF in the Six-Day War placed the nation and the state in a new and fateful period. Now the whole Land of Israel is in the hands of the Jewish people…
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1967
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Today is the eighth day since the evil tidings came that the crown has fallen from our head (Lam. 5:16). It was my obligation to see that we should immediately have arranged a great memorial service…
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Ezekiel Landau
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Prag, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1780
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On a very hot summer’s day, at noon, I am in the kibbutz in which both my father, who died in 1972, and my brother-in-law, who was killed in the…
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Bernard-Henri Lévy
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1977