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Jul 8, 2018, 4:14 AM

Inhumanity at the Top

It used to be the case that humans were inhuman to other humans. Now government has usurped that role. In the United States, land of the once-free and home of the once-brave, President Trump has created a very inhumane act...

Jul 6, 2018, 11:18 PM

Poland… Again?

Following publication of my recent article, “A Case for Poland”, I received several responses from readers, Jews and non-Jews, who shared thoughts and opinions regarding what I had written. Many responses were positive. A few were blatantly anti-Semitic and, of...

Jul 6, 2018, 7:41 AM

A Case For Poland

The Israeli government, members of our Knesset, Cabinet Ministers, Yad Vashem are among the voices recently raised criticizing the Israel-Poland agreement on the revision of Poland’s recent Holocaust law. I begin by stating my identity as a religious Jew whose...

Jul 5, 2018, 10:55 AM

Pre-Birth Memories

There are family memories of history and life events long before I was born. They were related to me by my parents long years ago, in days of youth when I could better understand. My mother was born into a...

Jul 4, 2018, 11:20 PM

The Caliph and the Sultan

The American famed fighter for the freedom of his people, Martin Luther King, had a dream. And eventually, his dream came true, largely because it was the right kind of dream meant to free people from racial bigotry and...

Jul 3, 2018, 11:28 PM

“If You Will It, It is No Dream”

How can any Jew, any Zionist, any Israeli ever forget the historic words which Theodor Herzl, visionary father and founder of Zionism, wrote in his 1896 book “Der Judenstaat”. The Jewish State. “If you will it, it is no dream”....

Jul 3, 2018, 1:46 AM

The Fast I Don’t Fast

In the heat of the summers of my youth, on the 9th day of the month of Av (Tisha B’Av) I would go to the synagogue, remove my shoes and sit on the floor and by the light of...

Jul 2, 2018, 7:21 AM

The Cause behind the Flight

April 9. 1948 was a date in pre-Israel history that, like Roosevelt’s remark of the Pearl Harbor attack, was “a day that will live in infamy” Most Israelis born after 1948 have probably never heard of the massacre in...

Jun 30, 2018, 2:34 PM

Ten Men From Kharkov

On July 31, 1882 ten men from Kharkov in Russia, all members of the pre-Herzlian Zionist movement group known as Hovevei Tziyon (Lovers of Zion), purchased 835 acres of land from the Ottoman Turkish government to establish a Jewish...

Jun 29, 2018, 5:53 PM

Let Us Finish the Job

Although we Jews are a merciful people and children of a merciful God, we, the people of Israel, cannot continue to endure the seven decades of terror, killing, and mass destruction of our homeland and our people. On November 2,...

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About Me

Esor Ben-Sorek is a retired professor of Hebrew, Biblical literature & history of Israel. Conversant in 8 languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French, German, Spanish, Polish & Dutch. Very proud of being an Israeli citizen. A follower of Trumpeldor & Jabotinsky & Begin.