May 1, 2017
Anniversary of an Image
Understanding the history and meaning of the photograph that is the embodiment of Israel itself.
If you will it, it is no dream.
–Theodore Herzl, Altneuland, 1902
Each Jew knows how thoroughly ordinary he is; yet taken together we seem caught up in things great and inexplicable. It is almost as if we were not acting but being acted through . . . . Big things seem to happen around us and to us.
