Don’t Look Back: Holocaust Survivors in the U.S.
Don’t Look Back: Holocaust Survivors in the U.S.
Where Irving Howe’s World of Our Fathers deals with Jews who came to America between 1881 and 1917, there is no World of Our Fathers about the 140,000 European Holocaust survivors who came to the United States after World War II or even about the other two-thirds of the survivors who came to Israel.
Is Momentum Enough? The State of the American Jewish Community Today
Absorbing the Mass Immigration Facing Reality
Why Syria Agreed to Peace Talks
The Conversion of American Jewry
The Conversion of American Jewry
Consider the conversion of a people. Two notable mass conversions were the sweep of Christianity through the Roman empire in the fourth century and the seventh century military campaign that made Islam the dominant religion from North Africa through the Arab East to India. In most societies in which several religions meet, people pass continuously across the boundary between faiths.
U.S. – Israel Relations After the Gulf War
U.S.-Israel Relations After the Gulf War
The world has now entered a period in which the end of the classic colonial era and the beginning of the Third World is coexisting with the end of the Cold War and the absence of Soviet-American confrontation. Indeed, it is often now said in East Europe, for example, that the Communist era will be seen historically as a 45-year interregnum and that the 1930s are in many ways being resurrected.
In the New World Order – The Threat to Israel Continues
Palestinians Challenge the Intifada
Revolutionary Times in the Soviet Union- 20 Months Later
Unions, Politics, and Work: Unleashing Israel’s Human Resources
Dawn of a New South Africa
The Mizrachi Entrance into the WZO Educational Enterprise in the Diaspora
The basic ambivalence of Mizrachi/Poalei Mizrachi toward institutionalized Zionist education in the diaspora, which from the beginning of the twentieth century was deemed to be
primarily secular in nature, evolved from a non-participatory stance to an active? even aggressive? participation via what it termed “Jewish” or “Torah education,” which was considered by them to be ipso facto true Zionist education. During the initial three years of the State of Israel, Mizrachi/Poalei Mizrachi exploited the political realities of both the state and the World Zionist Organization in order to establish as a base its own separate WZO Department of Torah Education and Culture for the Diaspora.
