To Win: Call the Enemy by His Right Name
Overwhelmed by the ineptitude, cowardice, and even treachery of various Israeli governments, many Jews here and abroad despair of Israel’s future. Hardly a week passes...
Category : Judaism
Israel Devoid Of Any Ideology: What Is To Be Done?
When the Likud dropped to 12 seats in the March 2006 election, this meant that secular Zionism was dead. Moreover, in that election the National...
The Particularism that Nurtures Universalism
Edited transcript of the Eidelberg Report. Israel National Radio, Aug 3, 2009. Today’s report is based on my forthcoming book, Toward a Renaissance of Israel...
What is a Jew and What is a Jewish State?
Edited transcript of the Eidelberg Report. Israel National Radio, July 27, 2009. In a recent article, I referred to Raphael Patai’s The Jewish Mind. Such...
Israel
One should not identify Israel with the State of Israel. Since Israel was created as the God-bearing nation, it is infinitely more than a state—one...
An American Patriot in Israel
More than forty years have elapsed since I wrote “The Crisis of Our Times,” which was printed in The Congressional Record (U.S. Senate, July 31,...
Some Reflections of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
1. “It would be a piece of base self-deception for us to imagine that we could buy the friendship of the peoples and permanently assure it...
What Should Israel Look Up to?
What is most decisive about the character of a nation is what its people look up to and admire. Sometimes what people look up to...
Praise the Lord, the God of Israel
Praise the Lord, all people of honest faith, praise the God of Israel. See how His Chosen People, “despite” mediocre leaders, attacks Evil—the evil incarnate...
“You Can’t Make A Crooked Line Straight”
The Sages say, “You can’t make a crooked line straight.” This prompted the present writer to warn a reputedly right-minded organization against joining the Likud...