Tonight, a lot of Jews will be wearing blue and white and waving Israeli flags. People all over the world can then be found rejoicing that Israel has become an independent state. But on the other hand, there will be sadness among several Jews and reason enough not to celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut (יוֹם הָעַצְמָאוּת) or [...]
Tag: Palestine
Don’t Normalize the Political Violence in Gaza
Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images The unspeakable violence currently unfolding in Gaza is confronting the Jewish community with the most critical moral challenge of our lifetime. In August 2014, the Jewish festival of Tisha B’Av arrived as Israel was waging a military onslaught on Gaza that would eventually kill 2,251 Palestinians, 1,462 of whom [...]
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Not everything looks so good of the Zionist movement
“The land flowing with milk and honey” is a favorite poetic description of Eretz Yisrael in the Torah. It is less known that Chazal in several places understand this phrase as not referring to all of the land, but rather to specific parts of it. After the second world war, there were organisations and governments that loved to see all Jews away from their regions and forced entire congregations of the Children of Israel to assemble at Jerusalem.
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Another Jewish Voice on Trump’s plan: No peace without equality and mutual respect
As we have become accustomed to the 45th president of America, he has pulled up the sheet and pulled Nethanyanu in his cart to create a plan with popular Israeli measures without taking into account the Palestinians in the talks for planning the state of Israel.
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Egypt, Moshe and Those who never felt they belonged there
Along the Nile River the river’s annual flooding ensured reliable, rich soil for growing crops. Having people cultivating the lands around this rich water made that in ancient North-eastern Africa the Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BCE (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh [...]
Immanuel Verbondskind - עמנואל קאָווענאַנט קינד 