You ever wonder who the real first Zionist was? Ask different people you will get different answers. Such as Leon Pinsker-a, a late 19th century Zionist, Was the founder and leader of Hibbat Zion (Hebrew: חיבת ציון,) the Lovers of Zion movement. Theodor Herzl, Created the World Zionist Organization. Ze’ev Jabotinsky-Zionist philosopher and the creator of Revisionist Zionism….
Many may take for granted the historic passing of UN General Assembly Resolution 181. Many may not know of the pressures for and against this resolution that served as the catalyst for the resolution that gave birth to the Jewish state. The Historical Precedent An earlier plan to divide Palestine into two states was proposed…
Monday night, March 6 begins the holiday of Purim. It’s a Jewish holiday that celebrates the victory of Jewish people led by Queen Esther over an ancient Persian king’s grand vizier, Haman. Haman got permission from the king to kill all the Jews in the Persian Empire, but before he could complete his plan, it…
My Dad, of blessed memory, passed away just before Election Day in 2016. I think of him all the time, especially during the high holidays, because we walked to the Synagogue together on Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur when I was growing up. When I moved out on my own, I started abandoning my faith….
It was supposed to be a harbinger of peace, but it never worked out that way. The entire thing was an Arafat ruse. The Palestinians killed the Oslo Accords before the ink on Yasser Arafat’s signature was dry. That famous handshake. It happened thirty years ago, September 13, 1993. When I close my eyes, I…
(JNS) “Where there is unity, there is always victory,” the famed Latin writer Publilius Syrus wrote. In much of the world, this statement would likely to be used by politicians or others to rally people around a certain ideology or policy. In Israel, however, unity is a matter of life or death: Safety or destruction,…
Wednesday, July 26, through Sunset, Thursday, July 27 is the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’ Av (literally the 9th of the Jewish month of Av). Since Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, through modern times, horrible things have happened to the Jewish people on or around the 9th day of Av….
We need to add in a day of Jewish unity immediately following the day of Tisha B’Av. Tisha B’Av memorializes the days of woe for the Jewish people and our people’s unmitigated destruction and decimation. We need to institute an official day of the unit, such as a unity Nachamu Shabbat, to make up for…
As U.S. Presidents go, he was one of the most supportive of Israel. He armed Israel after the Six-Day War and before the Yom Kippur War, allowing the Jewish state to protect itself. One of the biggest falsehoods about Israeli/U.S. history is that the U.S. wasn’t always the supplier or weapon to Israel. France was the Jewish…
Beginning with the sunset on Thursday, May 25th, Jews worldwide will start to observe Shavuot, my favorite of all the Jewish holidays (more on that later). Shavuot commemorates that incredible day when God himself spoke publicly to the newly freed Hebrew slaves about the Torah and what is popularly known as the Ten Commandments. Historically, Shavuot…
