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Itzhak Refael once warned his colleagues on the Jewish Agency Executive that if they insisted on “regulating” the immigration quotas only the immigration from North Africa would remain for it could…
The debate in 1978 was not cathartic. It was just the opposite. Here we have something of a textbook example of the reciprocity between the present and collective memory…
“Eretz Israel.” There is not one. We already grew up on one sublime Eretz Israel which is almost the be-all-and-end-all of everything. The place of the Jewish people. Its homeland, its right, its…
Six million perished not because of a cataclysm of nature, as is evoked by use of that inadequate term “holocaust”; they died not because they lacked courage, but because they lacked the minimum…
Berl Katznelson did much to foster the awareness of “Yizkor” and its literature in the twenty years after Tel Hai, through an explicit reference to the chain of Jewish martyrology and heroism and a…
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…
The new hybrid rightist-Jewish narrative spread into mainstream Israeli society especially strongly after the Six Day War (1967), when the right began to make deep inroads in both political and public…
Scholars say the cultivated olive originated in Asia Minor and the Mediterranean lands, including the Land of Israel.
In the Bible, the olive is first…
The span of time to be discussed here comprises what are popularly termed the biblical period and the Second Temple period. The biblical period is held to begin somewhere within the second millennium…