Can war with Hamas help Israel decide what it is? - opinion

We have only one way to comprehend the positive meaning of this otherwise apparently negative anomaly: the way of faith and the assignment of a universal moral-religious mission.

IT WAS then the Jew was hurled into the abyss of the nations: A cave in Hurvat Madras; these caves have been found full of the belongings of Bar Kochba’s people.

(photo credit: NATI SHOHAT/FLASH90)

ByNATHAN LOPES CARDOZO

OCTOBER 14, 2023 04:56

Updated: OCTOBER 14, 2023 04:57

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