A couple of weeks ago, I had occasion to deliver two remote presentations to a group of professionals in the United States who sought to understand better the deeper meaning of what happened on October 7 and what has unfolded since, in the light of what Zionism was, what it was meant to be, and what it has promised to the Jewish people.
On Wednesday, we posted the first of those two presentations (edited for length and to mask the identities of participants), which we made available to all our readers, including a transcript (which we usually do only for paid subscribers to Israel from the Inside).
It ran just shy of 50 minutes, and is a brief history of the Zionist movement, its fundamental commitments and promises.
Today, we post the second part of that series, on “How October 7 broke the promise that Zionism had made to the Jewish people”. We are posting this brief excerpt for all of our listeners, with the full conversation and a transcript available exclusively to paid subscribers.
The link above will take you to a brief excerpt of the conversation; the full conversation, along with a transcript for those who prefer to read, is being made available to paid subscribers to Israel from the Inside.
If you’re just joining us, Israel from the Inside typically posts a written column on Mondays and a podcast on Wednesdays. That is obviously irrelevant for the time being.
We’ve delayed all the podcasts that were ready to go, because the people whose stories they tell deserve to tell them when we all have the bandwidth to hear. Hopefully, that will return some day.
For the next three weeks, beginning Sunday, December 17th, we will be posting a bit less, as people in the United States will be on vacation, traveling and the like, and here in Israel, as some reservists are being rotated out of units, those of us who could not leave while our kids were/are at the front, will be using the time to visit kids and grandchildren abroad.
Impossible Takes Longer is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and at other booksellers.
Music credits: Medieval poem by Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Gvirol. Melody and performance by Shaked Jehuda and Eyal Gesundheit. Production by Eyal Gesundheit. To view a video of their performance, see this YouTube:
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