Posts Tagged: Land of Israel
Diasporism: A Poor Man’s Judaism
JNS.org - The clash between devotion to the Diaspora and the yearning for the Land of Israel is not a new phenomenon. In the period...
Getting to Know the Land and Animals of Israel
Last July, after dropping off my son Meir at the IDF draft office in Tiberias, and before I went to Ben Gurion Airport to catch...
Shamir to Netanyahu – History Comes Full Circle
JNS.org - As a decade of Likud government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to a close, Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria has become...
The True History of the Land of Israel
Millennia before Palestinians appeared on the world stage following the Six-Day War, the “West Bank” was already known as Judea and Samaria. “Palestine” dates from...
A Tu BiShvat Guide for the Perplexed, 2019
1. The Jewish Arbor Day, Tu Bishvat (ט"ו בשבט) highlights human gratitude for the creation of fruit-bearing trees. Jewish tradition stipulates a one-sentence blessing before...
Conflicting Claims to the Land of Israel: What Every Yeshiva Boy Studying Basic Talmud Knows
One of the great tragedies of the modern Jewish state is that the Zionist movement, which birthed it, was (and still largely is) dominated almost...
Israel Surrenders the Temple Mount
Since Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, ending nearly two thousand years of Jewish exile and dispersion, only one other moment has rivaled its...
The ‘Homeland’ is the Homeland History Exhibit’s Rightful Home
The group of 22 Arab states that persuaded UNESCO to cancel a Simon Wiesenthal Center exhibit on the Jewish people's 3,500-year homeland connection awakened far more...
World Jewish Congress: UNESCO Cancellation of Jewish Exhibit ‘Endorsed Arab Rejectionism’
International Jewish human rights group, the World Jewish Congress (WJC), lambasted UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, after the UN body pulled a Jewish...
UNESCO Pulls Jewish Exhibit After Last Minute Protest From Arab League
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, has pulled a Jewish exhibit two years in the making, entitled "People, Book, Land - The 3,500 Year...
Tu B’Shevat Guide for the Perplexed, 2014
1. Judaism stipulates four New Years, one of them is the New Year for the trees, Tu Bishvat (Arbor Day), the 15th day of the month...
A ‘P’alestinian Inconvenient Truth
In the ongoing "battle of the narratives" between Israel and the Palestinians, one minor, but telling, detail rarely gets mentioned: the Arabic alphabet, the abjad,...
Church of Scotland Agrees to Amend Controversial Report on Israel
The Church of Scotland has agreed to amend a recent controversial report on Israel, The Guardian reported. Senior church leaders have agreed to amend the official report...
Full Transcript: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Welcomes President Obama to Israel
Below is the full transcript of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech welcoming U.S. President Obama on his first trip to Israel as U.S. president....
