“Nasser was dead. Israel’s military superiority had effectively neutralized any Syrian threat. Pan-Arabism was a thing of the past. Yet once again, Israel found itself arrayed against another enemy sworn to its destruction.” — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“They often unfavorably compared Holocaust victims to the new, powerful Jews of the Yishuv who dislodged the British and fought off the Arabs with… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“Nasser was dead. Israel’s military superiority had effectively neutralized any Syrian threat. Pan-Arabism was a thing of the past. Yet once again, Israel found… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“He had an impeccable sense of timing, knew when to wait and when to move, and declared the state even before it was ready,… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“Yet if mere Israeli survival was going to evoke Arab anger, Dayan then warned both his listeners and his entire newborn nation, Israelis had… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“THE BEGIN YEARS HAD not been easy ones for Israel, but they had been important. Israel had made peace with its once most potent… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“Micah Goodman, a popular teacher on the Israeli scene and one of its young public intellectuals, wrote his first three books on Maimonides’s Guide… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“Herzl promised the readers of Altneuland not only a Jewish safe haven, but a Jewish state that would be a source of progress and… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“The story of the return of the Jewish people to its ancestral homeland became, in short, one of the great dramas in the history… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“Dayan and Eshkol were against taking the Golan Heights from the Syrians. Syrian troops, they both insisted, had thus far made no effort to… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
![“They often unfavorably compared Holocaust victims to the new, powerful Jews of the Yishuv who dislodged the British and fought off the Arabs with strength and military might. Tellingly, “[t]hose killed in the Holocaust were said to have ‘perished,’ while Jews who died fighting in Palestine had…” quote by Daniel Gordis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a34/daniel-gordis-36176_judaism_they-often-unfavorably-compared-holocaus_806747.jpg)
