The Two-State Solution: A Sacrifice of the Intellect
By following Foundation Blog you will find infromation about whatever else one may say of the “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is fascinating...
Category : Beliefs & Perspectives
From Martin Buber to Michael Oren
What does Martin Buber have in common with Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States? In response to the Obama administration’s objection to settlements,...
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...
Iranian, American, and Israeli Grievances: A Question of Revolution
Iran’s fraudulent presidential election of June 12, which kept Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power, was enough to trigger a revolution—not civil disobedience Israeli style. Many Iranians...
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...
The Likud: A Dead Man Walking
The Likud is a dead man walking, and no one can enliven that intellectually sterile party. This means that political Zionism is dead. It died...
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...