POETIC JUSTICE: Mufti’s Home Is To Be Turned Into A Synagogue
Sometimes we are forced to wait decades for true revenge on the enemies of the Jewish people, but when wheels of history turn and our chance to rectify a past injustice against us occurs, the wait is worth it. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who some say was the inspiration for Hitler’s Final Solution, was […]
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The Fight For Sovereignty In Jerusalem
In recent weeks the “Palestinian” Authority has made worrying announcements on their intent to apply their sovereignty to areas of “East” Jerusalem. With campaigns to renovate a number of Arab properties across the Eastern neighborhoods, the Abbas regime in Ramallah is seeking to counteract Israel’s successful rehabilitation programs in a number of these neighborhoods. While […]
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Jerusalem’s Security Barrier and the Loss of Jewish Sovereignty
When one stands on various areas of Jerusalem’s seam-line that runs roughly along 1948-49 armistice line, the unmistakable site in the distance of the security barrier, is both jarring and in many ways calming to the eye and the mind. The security barrier, which is actually a fence in most places, turns into a foreboding […]
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Ahuvia Sandak: Some Pioneers Live Forever
Ahuvia Sandak, a young Jewish pioneer who was killed last week in what seems more and more likely to be a police instigated “road accident” has transformed Israel since his passing. And while we hope reports of extreme negligence turn out to be not true, an important question remains: Why has an idealistic teenager’s unfortunate […]
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Leveraging the Spacial Challenge of Jerusalem’s Old City For Good
Most of us who have walked the streets and alleys of Jerusalem’s Old City get a sense of the maze like quality in which life seems to unfold. At first glance there is a lack of space and within that lacking, a suffocating feeling that there is no stronger sense of artificial experience. This seems […]
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Redeveloping and Regreening Jerusalem
Those of us who live in Israel and have the merit to travel when we want to Jerusalem often times focus on the national and religious significance of Jerusalem, while neglecting the foward reaching expression that Jerusalem is meant to have and currently developing. While our historical religious claims to our capital should never be […]
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Jerusalem Is The Engine Of Redemption
All of us yearn, desire, and strive to connect to Redemption. The Rabbis teach that the Divine Presence will not return to the Jerusalem of above until it returns to the Jerusalem of below. What they are saying is that our disconnection from our own inner Jerusalem, which our own inner connection to the Divine, […]
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Hebron Street As A Bridge Between The Past And Future
Every time I take groups on tour to the Old Jewish Quarter, there is one street that people connect to more than any other. Hebron Street, today called Al-Khalidiyya Street was home to 1,299 Jews and was considered the center of Jewish life in the Old City until the Arab pogroms that occurred in 1920, […]
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Our War Is About Justice
With all of the talk these days invoking social justice, we have seen an ever increasing attack on Zionism. Although terms like occupation and settlements are used, make no mistake about it, these attacks are aimed at all of the Jewish people. After all, Zionism is the most successful social justice movement. The Jewish people […]
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Only Our Return Can Bring Peace, One Step At A Time
With all of the discussion surrounding the extension of Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria as well as the storm such a move would make, there are many false assumptions that have been made by even well meaning people. The main thrust of most of these “peace” initiatives is the need to reach some sort […]
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