When I was in high school, I has this deep-set belief that if people agreed with me, I must be doing something wrong. To make things really clear, it wasn’t so much because I considered myself a saint. I knew the difference between right and wrong and I can assure you that I knew that I was far from sainthood. No, the reason I believed this was simple. People, in my perception of humanity...
Postwar Jewish refugees left everything they had in Europe—no ‘right of return’ requested. There are some articles that are so to-the-point that I feel I have no choice but to add them to my personal little collection of intellectual gems. Secretly I’ll admit that I’m envious. I wish I had written them. Warren Koxzak’s article, “If the Jews had followed the Palestinian Path” is definitely one of them. Originally published in the online edition of the Wall Street...
A moment of history from the annuals of the U.S. Congress in 1922 On June 30, 1922, a joint resolution of both Houses of Congress of the United States unanimously endorsed the “Mandate for Palestine,” confirming the irrevocable right of Jews to settle in the area of Palestine�anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea: “Favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. “Resolved by the Senate and...
by Tzvi Fishman4 Tevet 5768, 13 December 07 [I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of Mr Fishman nor have I ever been an enthusiastic supporter of Rav Levinger. None the less, when a person speaks truth, I accept it from where ever it comes. In my 56 year experience, the past thirty four of them in or associated with Israel and the Jewish People, the following rings true as few other blog posts...
