Quote of the Week
“Our forces saved the remnant of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” Dwight D Eisenhower
“Our forces saved the remnant of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” Dwight D Eisenhower
“In an idolatrous world, Moses speaking at God’s behest, seems desperate to carve out one small territory where monotheism can grow unmolested.” Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
”Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.” ― Eric Hoffer
“We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.”—Menacham Begin
“The Holy One, blessed be He, created days, and took to Himself the Sabbath; He created the months, and took to Himself the festivals; He created the years, and chose for Himself the Sabbatical year; He created the Sabbatical years, and chose for Himself the Jubilee year; He created the nations, and chose for Himself…
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”—Jim Elliot
“The countless generations of Jews murdered, martyred, and massacred for the sake of Jerusalem say to you, Comfort ye our people.”—Yitzhak Rabin, IDF chief of staff in 1967, later Prime Minister
“Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you. Fear not your friends, for they can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth.”–Edward Yashinsky, who survived the Holocaust but later died in a Communist prison.
“The Jews were the emblem of homeless and vulnerable humanity. But is not the whole earth no more than a temporary transit-camp?”–Paul Johnson writes in the History of the Jews
“Only in moments when we are able to share in the spirit of awe that fills the world are we able to understand what happened at Sinai. Revelation means that the thick silence which fills the endless distance between God and the human mind was pierced, and man was told that God is concerned with…