“…by the power of my yearnings/ I am in the family./ And if I will not yearn,/ I am not in the family.” So wrote Avot Yeshurun (1904-1992), an Israeli poet who knew something about the fragility of familial ties, whether by blood, nationality, language, or religion. Born Yehiel Perlmutter in Ukraine to a Hasidic […]
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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