By Yossi Klein Halevi
David Hartman, a giant of our times, presented challenges to all Jews. He warned Orthodoxy to broaden. He also demanded that liberal Judaism deepen.
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By Yossi Klein Halevi
The English word large has been absorbed into Hebrew, but in Hebrew, large is not a physical measure. It’s a measure of character, and describes an aspect of the Israeli character. “
Tihiyeh large,” Israelis exhort each other: “Be generous, expansive, grand.”Read More
By Yossi Klein Halevi
The following was excerpted from an article in the spring issue of Azure Magazine.
Jacob Birnbaum was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1926. His grandfather, Nathan Birnbaum, coined the term “Zionism” and served as secretary general of the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897. Dissatisfied with his western European acculturated identity,Read More