The Jewish Awakening in Israel After October 7
Maybe the word “awakening” is not accurate … because it’s not that we woke up from something – we remembered.
We remembered who we are, where we live … and what the price of forgetting is.
Maybe the word “awakening” is not accurate … because it’s not that we woke up from something – we remembered.
We remembered who we are, where we live … and what the price of forgetting is.
The Exodus from Egypt was not an end, it was a beginning.
And the Jewish people, as always, are still halfway there – with many successes, with quite a few mistakes.
And with an amazing ability to keep going, even when there is no map.
If there’s anything history has already proven, it’s that we’re not the ones who need permission to continue to exist.
Those who want to integrate – welcome, those who want to undermine, incite and justify terror – should not be surprised when they stop calling it “complex”.
How a people who gave the world ethics, justice and monotheism became “problematic” in Intro to Critical Theory.
What have we learned? Forgetting is forbidden, trusting is forbidden, losing is impossible
Two years after 10/7, the clear lesson is that the Jewish people must not be confused: not to believe in any promise of “world peace”, not to forget the price of complacency, and not to assume that the Western world will protect us.