Sublime

JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION were not the only ones who would find refuge and forge new lives in the Jewish state. As civil war raged in Ethiopia, with famine contributing to its dire state of affairs, world Jewry became particularly concerned for the fate of the Jewish community there. Taking a page from Operation Magic Carpet some thirty-five years e

In the sixty years since its founding, Israel’s economy had grown fiftyfold.28 By 2008, Israel had an annual 3.1 percent growth rate in GDP, one of the highest in the world at that time.29 It had the highest concentration of engineers and research and development spending in the world, as well as the highest concentration of start-ups.30 In that sa

Israel is the Jewish State because it, alone, is situated in our ancestral homeland, provided refuge to Jews from more than seventy countries, revived the ancient Jewish language, and observes a national Jewish calendar. It is the Jewish State because it will aid you and your family…because you are Jews. When I relinquished my U.S. citizenship, an

Israel proceeded, undeterred, animated by a sense of justice. David Ben-Gurion also had an educational agenda. Israel’s young people had been raised in a society that had thus far avoided confronting the Holocaust. It was time for a public reckoning, the prime minister believed. “Israeli youth should learn the truth of what had happened to the Jews

This couldn’t be further from the truth. Israel is the only country in the region with the same values as Western democracies, no matter on which side of the political map you position yourself.

Israel is the moon to God’s sun, reflecting the divine light to a world blanketed in darkness.