by Abraham | May 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
I can’t literally translate this into English but everyone who speaks and understands Dutch knows the intuitive meaning of: “De mens is eerder bijgelovig dan gelovig.” One translation is: “Humankind is more superstitious than religious,” but that doesn’t cut it. It’s...
by Abraham | May 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
In the 1800’s, the Hebrew-reading intelligentsia dreamed of an elite Jewry composed of select groups of intellectual and idealistic Jews who would emigrate to Palestine to revive a national Jewish creativeness, a Jewish cultural renaissance. The ‘return to Zion,’ was...
by Abraham | May 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
In Rima Najjar’s, ‘The Zionist Idea has Never Been More Terrifying than It Is Today,’ she diplomatically asserts, in politically correct terms, “… there exists a complex picture of the relationship between Judaism and Zionism.” Permit me to call the beast by its name....
by Abraham | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
My two oldest children are visiting Israel, as I’m writing this blog. They’re literally walking in the footsteps of Jesus, or so they’d like to believe. But whose footsteps are Jesus interested in? His or ours? This fired up a conversation between my daughter’s...
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