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And thus it came to pass, and this was the beginning . . . Heavens tell me, why?
Tell me, why this, O why? What have we done to merit such disgrace?
The earth is dumb and…
Contributor:
Yitshak Katzenelson
Places:
Vittel, German Military Administration in Occupied France (Vittel, France)
Date:
1944
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Diversity is a characteristic feature of Orthodoxy today. Orthodox leaders and movements inspire the extremes of the Jewish political spectrum, from the supernationalism of Meir Kahane…
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Immanuel Jakobovits
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1989
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4. [ . . . ] The Gaon of Vilna writes [in his Even Shelemah] that the second chapter of Vayishla? is the chapter of the “footsteps of the Messiah.” When Jacob returned from his…
Contributor:
Elhanan Wasserman
Places:
Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1938
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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…
Contributor:
Elimelech Neufeld
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1939
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When macabre reality gnaws at a person’s soul, it is hard to devote oneself to psychological investigation, even of very pressing subjects. The event also seemed cut off from life, entirely academic…
Contributor:
Szymon Draenger
Places:
Kraków, General Government (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1943
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What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? After this catastrophe, what is a Jew’s relation to the Jewish past? We resume our original question as we turn from one rupture in post-Holocaust Jewish existence—of the…
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Emil L. Fackenheim
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
1982
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O God of Mercy
Choose—
another people.
We are tired of death, tired of corpses,
We have no more prayers.
Choose—
another people.
We have run out of blood
For victims,
Our houses have been turned into…
Contributor:
Kadya Molodovsky
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945