Here I Am: A Novel
In the past, Jews had sanctified God’s name by being willing to die for their faith. Now they were being summoned to fight for the right to live for their faith.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
These stories express the Jewish community’s two highest hopes and deepest fears. The first hope is that the Jews in this new place will remain part of the chain of Jewish tradition, and the second hope is that the local population will accept them.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
You’d think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bon
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What can he say to him? That the Children of Israel grew weary of the Temple? That the God of Israel despised it? That the prophets of Israel opposed it ferociously? That the sages of Israel established the beit midrash in its place and will never give up the sublime study of Torah in exchange for the blood of slaughtered animals? That every time t
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