An Israeli parliament committee approved a bill that would provide tax exemptions for donations to institutions that participate in “strengthening Zionism and encouraging Zionist settlement.”
The location of the modern State of Israel–that is, in the same region that the biblical Israelites called home–seems sensible enough. But in fact even Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, was open to setting up the Jewish state elsewhere. At one point, he proposed that Jews settle a remote and unpopulated region of Uganda. Hitler’s motivations were very different […]
Today more than ever, I empathize with Hebrew school students. The hopeless saggy-eyed droop on my face mirrors theirs as the nation’s heatwave kicks me in the chest with unconscionable force, instructing me to stay seated and type until the bell rings. It’s not that Hebrew instruction is painful, like having your teeth pulled. It’s […]