Posts Tagged: Max Nordau
Emancipation, Empathy, Antisemitism, and America
JNS.org - In an interview with my colleague Benjamin Kerstein last week, Rabbi Eli Cohen, the executive director of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council...
Will Jews Buy Umbrellas When They See Clouds in the Sky?
19th century Zionist philosopher, Max Nordau, was quoted as telling Jewish leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky that "the Jew learns not by way of reason, but from catastrophes. He...
Self-Respect: The Unrealized Vision for the Jewish State
In the nineteenth century, Theodor Herzl and other political Zionists shared a vision for a Jewish state that would allow the Jewish People to regain...
Explaining the ‘Maccabees’ Moniker for Jewish Athletics
Jewish athletes from around the world gather every four years in Israel for the Olympic-style Maccabiah Games, not to mention the annual JCC Maccabi Youth...
Sheldon Adelson’s Umbrella
This week yet again, billionaire Sheldon Adelson has come under attack in the pages of many news outlets; now it is about his new campaign...
Revisiting Zionism – Can Israel Survive Without a Soul?
Defiance The spies Moses sent to survey the land had done their job well. They convinced the entire nation that the advance to the Land of...
