The insular character of the Jewish community, at home and in exile, can best be described in the form of analogy. Jews do not proselytize, but this age-old Israelite imperative

For nearly two thousand years of exile the Jewish people suffered terrible persecution at the hands of their host governments and peoples. In Arab/Islamic countries in both Africa and the

Staunch anti-assimilationist Ze’ev Jabotinsky may have inherited the national pride and self-actualization tenets of the Zionist ethos from the likes of Herzl and Pinkser, but he quickly made it his

In 1999, when Benny Begin and Michael Kleiner split from the Likud on the political level, Karma Feinstein-Cohen, along with other Jabotinsky ideological adherents, left the Betar youth movement to

The land of Israel has traditionally been understood as one of the three pillars of Jewish civilization: The G-D of Israel, the People of Israel, and the Land of Israel.

When Zionists declared independence and the return of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel, the founding fathers of Zionism understood that they were making a proclamation of the justice

The Iron Wall, Jabotinsky’s treatise— a cornerstone of Zionist thought— contextualizes the often misunderstood elements that underpin Zionism. Its legitimacy, necessity, and most importantly the justice it demands in the

While Jews have certainly been labeled by certain leaders and societies as belonging to a specific “race”, Jewish identity is rooted in concepts that are much deeper than blood and

Of course, there are. Jews, like any other people, are prone to the same ills that afflict all of mankind. Judaism fundamentally rejects idol worship, yet Jewish history is replete

The language of “occupation” insinuates that Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria is both foreign and illegal. This is highly controversial and founded in fundamental prejudices regarding the Jewish people

In the 20th century, the Mandate system was instituted by the League of Nations. Mandate powers administered non-self-governing territories. The mandatory power in Israel’s case, Britain, appointed by the international