No, Israel Hasn’t Used Disproportionate Force against Hamas
In fact, it even minimized military casualties.
August 15, 2018
The Spiritual Diary of Religious Zionism’s Chief Theologian
A lost work by Abraham Isaac Kook.
In the early 1890s, Abraham Isaac Kook—later the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine—served as the rabbi of the Russian shtetl of Žeimelis, where he kept a Hebrew-language spiritual diary. Although about half of this material made it into his published works, the rest did not, until the manuscript was edited and published in Israel earlier this year. The diary, as Yehudah Mirsky explains, reflects a crucial period in Kook’s intellectual development: all the elements of his unique mystical theology are present, but without his application of these ideas to the spiritual rebirth of the Jewish people through the return to Zion, which eventually became the hallmark of his thought:
August 15, 2018
The U.S. May Be Poised to Give Iran the Missing Link in Its “Land Bridge”
Is America playing the role of Assad’s air force?
A Quarter-Century of Good Relations between Vietnam and Israel Have Benefitted Both Countries
They also provide Jerusalem with a link to the Muslim world.
The Spiritual Diary of Religious Zionism’s Chief Theologian
A lost work by Abraham Isaac Kook.
A New Memorial to Australia’s Jewish War Heroes
On the centennial of a great Jewish general’s knighthood.