Vision Magazine | Post-Zionism: Threat or Opportunity?
vk0ib2020-09-10T21:10:14+00:00Rabbi Gavriel Reiss leads a 2014 discussion about the need for Israel to advance beyond Zionism.
Lights On Orot: The Teachings of HaRav Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook by David Samson and Tzvi Fishman
vk0ib2020-09-08T23:00:44+00:00Rav Kook's Orot explores the deepest, most esoteric understandings of the nation of Israel, and Israel's role in world redemption. Lights On Orot is intended to be a series of commentaries on Rav Kook's most profound and visionary treatise.
Der Judenstaat by Theodor Herzl
vk0ib2020-09-08T23:01:45+00:00Many are aware that Theodor Herzl is considered the father of Zionism, the political movement that culminated in the creation of the modern State of Israel, but if you asked what exactly he envisioned for "The Jewish State" many would struggle to answer. Der Judenstaat is a must-read for all who wish to understand Herzl's [...]
The Six-Day War Scroll by Hagi Ben-Artzi
vk0ib2020-09-08T23:01:49+00:00In only Six Days, the young State of Israel defeated three mighty Arab nations - Egypt, Syria and Jordan - and returned to major parts of the Biblical Land of Israel and in the process more than doubled the size of the country. The world stood in awe. The aim of this book is to [...]
Stern: The Man and His Gang by Zev Golan
vk0ib2020-09-08T23:03:04+00:00Stern: The Man and His Gang traces Abraham Stern's evolution from hated gangster to folk hero and chronicles the military and political deeds of the thousand Jews who joined his war against England. In the 1940s, before there was an Israel, the Holy Land was rocked by warfare and violence, and no militia was fiercer [...]
Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War by Micah Goodman
vk0ib2020-09-08T23:03:35+00:00Since the Six-Day War, Israelis have been entrenched in a national debate over whether to keep the land they conquered or to return some, if not all, of the territories to Palestinians. In 2017, best-selling Israeli author Micah Goodman published a balanced and insightful analysis of the situation that quickly became one of Israel’s most [...]
The Secret Life of God by Rabbi David Aaron
vk0ib2020-09-08T23:04:19+00:00How much does our perception of God really matter? Many of us aren't conscious of our image of a "higher power." For some of us, that unspoken image is a Judgmental Parent or an exacting Old Man in the Sky. For others, God is an Imaginary Friend who is there to fix problems after we [...]
The Deed by Gerold Frank
vk0ib2020-09-08T23:04:28+00:00The true story of two young Jewish boys who sought to hurry history with a gun, and were hanged for it. What led them, desperate for freedom for their country, to assassinate Lord Moyne, the highest ranking British official in the Middle East, during the fall of 1944?
Vision Magazine
vk0ib2020-09-08T23:04:31+00:00Vision is a blog-based web magazine providing fresh conversations for some of the most pressing and significant issues facing the Jewish world. The magazine is a platform for thinkers and activists to share ideas, experiences, analyses, photographs, poems, videos and other expressions of personal creativity in an openly accessible forum.
Above and Beyond
vk0ib2020-09-08T23:06:46+00:00Would you risk everything - your future, your citizenship, even your life - to help a brother in need? In 1948, just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a group of Jewish American pilots answered a call for help. In secret and at great personal risk, they smuggled planes out of the [...]