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IsRAEL: YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
from Dr. Zohar Raviv
INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, AND OPINION
This day and age presents an inverse relationship between high
access to information on the one hand, and a much lower ability to engage knowledge in depth on the other hand. This reality is further aggravated by a culture wherein there also exists an inverse relationship between low levels of knowledge and very high levels of opinion.
ISRAEL: OUR HOMELAND VS. THE LAND WHICH IS OUR HOME
While Israel has always been recognized, commemorated, and celebrated as the Homeland of the Jewish people, many Jewish communities established a life in other countries throughout our history as a people. The relationship between the Homeland and the Land which is (now) home has been integral to Jewish discourse since the first Babylonian exile some 2,600 years ago, and remains a valid issue today.
ZIONISM: MODERN MOVEMENT VS. ANCIENT IDEAL
The term “Zionism” is as inspiring as it is sensitive, and even volatile. Unfortunately, modern discourse associates “Zionism” almost exclusively with the late 19th century political-ideological European movement under Benjamin Ze’ev (Theodor) Herzl, without contextualizing it within its millennia-old existence as a chief Jewish ideal. Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob, Rachel and Leah - did they not all abide by the Zionist ideal?
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