History
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The Myth of the Empty Land When we learn Jewish history, the story of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel seems to end with the Jewish-Roman wars of the 1st and 2nd centuries. From there, normative history courses shift to the Diaspora: the Talmudic academies in Babylonia, the Golden Age in Spain, Jewish […]
Human Interest
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It was the day after Yom Kippur, 2023, a gorgeous fall morning in greater Miami, when Yosh (Joshua) Markell, then 40, was driving his young daughter to school and spotted flashing lights in his rearview mirror. He pulled over, assuming it was routine stop. A broken brake light, maybe, an expired plate. He had nothing […]
All my assumptions were false. I assumed that since Max Steinberg, who had been killed in action in Gaza last Sunday, was a “lone soldier” from California who had no family and few friends in Israel, only a several hundred American-Israelis would show up at his funeral. Wanting to give support to his bereaved parents, […]
On the Miracle of Jewish Survival: 1. The Jews present us with an outstanding spectacle: the laws of (the ancient kingdoms) of Numa, Lycurgus and Solon are dead; the far more ancient ones of Moses are still alive. Athens, Sparta, and Rome have perished and all their people have vanished from the earth; though destroyed, […]
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Dr Yechiel Leiter lost not only his son but also his best friend Moshe Leiter.
