How Two Barren Islands Can Pave the Way to Saudi-Israeli Peace
Jerusalem should be asking Riyadh for more in return.
June 7, 2022
The Paradox at the Heart of Hebrew Literature’s Most Famous Rejection of the Diaspora
Haim Hazaz’s “The Sermon.”
Published in the annus horribilis of 1942, Haim Hazaz’s short story “The Sermon” is one of the seminal works of Zionist literature, even if it is little-read today. Its title refers to a fictional speech before a Haganah committee given by the normally taciturn Yudka, in which he denounces Jewish history as such. In Hillel Halkin’s translation its climactic passage reads:
June 7, 2022
What Goes On at Iran’s Jewish Studies Center
Anti-Semitism 101.
The Paradox at the Heart of Hebrew Literature’s Most Famous Rejection of the Diaspora
Haim Hazaz’s “The Sermon.”
The Roman Empire’s Religious War against the Jews
What the destruction of Jerusalem meant to those who destroyed it.
Canada Will Soon Offer Assisted Suicide to the Mentally Ill
Beware the slippery slopes to the north.