Hatikvah, from the ashes
Even as we mourn our six million martyrs, let us rejoice in everything our people have managed to rebuild in the eight decades since the Holocaust.
Commentary
The Nazis burned books 90 years ago, but the smoke lingers
Even before the organized extermination of the Jews began, their literature was thrown into the fire. While a book is just a temporary state, and our ideas do not rely on actual print editions, seeing the pages being destroyed by the flame shakes us to our core.
Rethinking our path
If we desire life, the debate over our purpose must not undermine our common fate. Anyone who thinks they can manage alone without the various components and currents of our nation should learn from history.
When I heard the news I realized: My neighbors had been murdered
I saw their father in the synagogue last Shabbat. One of the girls walked by me several days ago.
As Israel embraces STEM, engineering leader highlights overlooked aspect
“I’ve seen engineers with very high grades, certifications, and degrees, but they were lacking skills that are very important to the job market,” Prof. Ami Moyal, president of Afeka College of Engineering, says.
The judicial reform: What now?
If we really want to rule, we should draw inspiration from the eternal sources of our nation and learn from the wisdom of the generations not to repeat mistakes, even if the cost is temporary retreat. The correction will come. Patience.
In praise of dispute
Israeli discourse has a tendency to flare up, with everything becoming an existential battle; the Passover Haggadah reveals to us a culture that sanctifies dispute as a way to clarify that neither side has a monopoly on the truth.
The talks to resolve the judicial crisis are about our very survival as a collective
Israeli society is facing a “To be or not to be?” moment. We simply have no other option but to ensure that the negotiations under the president's mediation culminate with success.
The judicial crisis is not a threat – it is a long-overdue introspection
The ongoing debate has brought to the surface the grievances of an enormous section of the public who have viewed with astonishment at how the protesters cast them as second-class, freeloader Israelis who are on the “other side of history.”
Palestinian nationhood? What does that mean
Bezalel Smotrich was right: The term “Palestinian People” was created especially for us, only following the Return to Zion. It migrated here en masse from the end of the 19th century, unaware that it was either “Palestinian” or a “People”.