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By David Hazony. First off, let me be clear that I do not condone Israel’s official use of sarcasm, wit or anything else that could be construed as more entertaining than the turgid pronouncements of native English-speaking governments. Since my childhood I have been told that government and humor don’t mix.
I consider David Hazony a friend and an important messenger of the truth. His latest article is a statement of profound importance. This is a message long overdue. What better time then Passover for this message of freedom to express itself. Thank you David. You can find other writings and lectures by Davis Hazony at: http://israelseen.com/category/david-hazony/ I can’t encourage everyone enough to read David Hazony’s book the “Ten Commandments”.
By David Hazony. The stories in this week’s reading may seem disjointed, but in fact they form a single unit. A modern editor, looking for a groovy chapter title, might have called the collection, “Ancient Israel’s Bipolar Moment.” Or, even more flippantly, “Hands Up!”
Limmud Life: Events like the recent Limmud New York getaway are taking up space in the Jewish world that synagogues once exclusively occupied. By David Hazony In a Jewish religious landscape dominated by denominations struggling to compete for dollars and daveners, the idea that the three big faith streams might fade into irrelevance, supplanted by a robust “just Jewish” identity, sounds like a fantasy.
By David Hazony How to make sense of Joseph?
By David Hazony. This is a difficult moment for American Jews. To wake up and discover, as did the Forward’s Gal Beckerman, that the Israeli Ministry of Absorption is actively trying to convince Israeli expatriates living in the U.S. that they should come back to Israel by dramatizing the risk of assimilation of their kids and grandkids — this is a cause for outrage.
