Watch now | Between the loftiness of poetry and the world-changing power of prose, we built a college to change Israel. This week, we got a reminder of why.
Poignant. I'm sad and hopeful at the same time. Such is Judaism. When I met my wife and fell in love with her on May 7, 1981, I told her that my Judaism is a link in a 3,000 year chain that I won't break, and that if she wouldn't become a Gera, we needed to stop seeing each other. She agreed and converted twice. Once with a Reconstructionist rabbi, and then before an Orthodox Bet Din, along with our three children. We have heckshers for them in our safe. Jewish day school, Camp Judaea, year course. In the states, kids need to be "pickled" to survive in a world of cucumbers.
Among other Zionist credentials, our son was a Tzanchan Krevi squad sharpshooter, and mostly posted on the border with Lebanon 2010-2012. Your writing has me welled up with tears, and I've never been more proud to be a Jew. Thank you so much for sharing.
The strength of the Jewish Soul, emerging from such unbearble trajedy, pierces me... a painful cry and a stream of tears consumes me in what is entirely and simultaneously, unfathomable, terrible and beautiful.
We clearly (well, at least some of us) know that words matter. If I was the president of one of our "Ivy League" universities, I might say that it depends on the context. However, our enemies do distinguish the difference between one and another. They see all self criticism and reflection as weakness and look for an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Poignant. I'm sad and hopeful at the same time. Such is Judaism. When I met my wife and fell in love with her on May 7, 1981, I told her that my Judaism is a link in a 3,000 year chain that I won't break, and that if she wouldn't become a Gera, we needed to stop seeing each other. She agreed and converted twice. Once with a Reconstructionist rabbi, and then before an Orthodox Bet Din, along with our three children. We have heckshers for them in our safe. Jewish day school, Camp Judaea, year course. In the states, kids need to be "pickled" to survive in a world of cucumbers.
Among other Zionist credentials, our son was a Tzanchan Krevi squad sharpshooter, and mostly posted on the border with Lebanon 2010-2012. Your writing has me welled up with tears, and I've never been more proud to be a Jew. Thank you so much for sharing.
The strength of the Jewish Soul, emerging from such unbearble trajedy, pierces me... a painful cry and a stream of tears consumes me in what is entirely and simultaneously, unfathomable, terrible and beautiful.
Thank you for sharing this tragic, and yet deeply moving story of Iris Haim and her son.
Beautiful introduction... if only everyone could hear it.
Is this video played in the Hebrew press?
Would love to hear Iris' speech.
We clearly (well, at least some of us) know that words matter. If I was the president of one of our "Ivy League" universities, I might say that it depends on the context. However, our enemies do distinguish the difference between one and another. They see all self criticism and reflection as weakness and look for an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Thanks for the subtitles the audio was barely audible.