WATCH: Jerusalem of Old, in Living Color!: United With Israel, May 6, 2021 — Israelis are soon celebrating Yom Yerushalayim, or Jerusalem Day, marking the reunification of the eternal Jewish capital during the 1967 Six Day War.
Jewish veterans of the Red Army commemorate Victory in Europe Day: Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post, May 9, 2021 –– Some 500 Jewish Israeli veterans of the Soviet Red Army, their children and grandchildren, IDF soldiers and Israeli youth movement members gathered in Jerusalem on Sunday to mark the Soviet and Allied victory over Nazi Germany in the World War II.
Jews and Jerusalem: A Love Story: Yonina Pritzker: JNS, May 3, 2021
The bond between the city of Jerusalem and the Jewish people is profound. This love runs deep and has been expressed in a myriad of ways throughout the 4,000 years of Jewish history.
The Temple Mount in the holy city of Jerusalem is Judaism’s holiest site, and to this day, every Jew turns towards it to pray.
Jerusalem: The Scandal of Particularity: Norman Podhoretz, Commentary Magazine, July/August 2007
At a ceremony in Jerusalem on May 24, Norman Podhoretz received the Guardian of Zion Award from the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University. Following is the text of his lecture:
Menachem Begin’s Covenantal Zionism: Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik, Mosaic, May 22, 2020
On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared Israeli independence. It is one of the most wondrous moments in Jewish history, worthy of religious reverence. And yet, reading the text of the declaration with religious sensitivities, it is hard not to notice something missing. The Israeli declaration of independence does not explicitly mention the divine. Secular Zionists, believing in the power of unassisted human will to make history, insisted that the God in Whom they could not believe be left out of it. Instead, the text concludes with a reference to Tsur Yisrael, the “Rock of Israel,” a traditional appellation for the Almighty, but a phrase which could also be interpreted as a reference to the flinty resolve of the IDF.
75 Years Later: World War II and Covid – 19: Frederick Krantz, Isranet, May 7, 2020
May 8, 2020 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Germany’s unconditional surrender, ending the European phase of World War II. As we face an ongoing corona-virus pandemic likened metaphorically to a war, the opening toll of which has been far more serious than either Pearl Harbor or 9/11, we must not fail to draw lessons from an earlier generation’s heroic struggle against radical evil.
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Jerusalem Day Celebrates Liberation of Eternal Jewish Capital: United With Israel, Apr. 30, 2021 — Jerusalem Day, or Yom Yerushalayim in Hebrew, which Israel is about to celebrate, falls on the 28th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar, commemorating the reunification of the eternal capital of Israel in June 1967, during the Six Day War.
Jerusalem Day: 54 Years Later, Is The City United Or Divided?: Tova Lazarof, Jerusalem Post, May 6, 2021 — Fakhri Abu Diab lives in east Jerusalem, but everything he knows about Israel’s capital is different from the one that his Jewish neighbors love.
WATCH: The Future of Jerusalem: A View from the Front: Dore Gold, Tikvah, June 29, 2018 — Jerusalem—the “eternal capital” of the Jewish people—is at once the cultural, spiritual, and strategic center of the modern Jewish state.
Memories of a Divided Jerusalem Before the Miraculous 1967 6 Day War: Avi Abelow, The Pulse of Israel, Apr. 18, 2021