The Birthday of the World:Rosh Hashanah’s Meanings by Ernst Simon The calendar, with its rhythmic division of the year, its beginning and its end, its workdays, rest days and holidays,…
Flight From God–and Return:A Modern Commentary on the Book of Jonah by Ernst Simon Thus begins the book of Jonah, which we will draw upon when, several hours from now, we shall be reading…
Are We Israelis Still Jews?The Search for Judaism in the New Society by Ernst Simon THE late Jan Huizinga, famous Dutch cultural historian, characterized the latter part of the Middle Ages in this way: "Life…
The Costs of Arab-Jewish Cold War:Ihud’s Experiment in Moral Politics by Ernst Simon The question of Jewish-Arab relations has seldom been in the foreground of official Zionist thought.
What Price Israel’s “Normalcy”?A Young Nation and its Ideals by Ernst Simon Even a superficial observer might notice the three traits in Israel's Jewish youth that still strike me as fundamental after…
Tomorrow’s Jew in the Making:New Forces Reshape a Centuries-Old Ideal by Ernst Simon If one traces Jewish educational ideals back to the source documents of the Tannaitic period at the beginning of the…
