A Letter Exchange between Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi: “It is essential that all Jews understand their role as a chosen people, chosen to create and sustain Israel in all its struggles and in all its strivings” and Aryeh Bernstein: “The association of chosenness with superiority reflects the faulty assumption that what I know is all there is to be known, that I can testify to our chosenness because I remember Sinai…” … More »
The False Messiah and the Future of Democracy
Among the greatest revolutions of human existence is the possibility of creating an ethical society. The authors of Deuteronomy fantasized about it and the leaders of post-Enlightenment Western cultures were convinced it was possible to legislate it. The early Zionists not only believed that it would redeem Judaism and the Jewish people, but some, like … More »