Another short response for school that I wanted to put here — Soon after the signing of the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, which bound the former to halting settlement construction for three months, Gush Emunim mobilized under the leadership of Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook to sabotage the agreement in its wake. In December 1978, thousands of settlers and yeshiva…

Short response I wrote that never got graded — We were loathsome to you, our impact was hard and strange yet why did you cast us out upon our birthplace why did you banish us to all the ruins… — Erez Bitton, Something on Madness This passage from Erez Bitton’s poem, Something on Madness addresses the power dynamic between…

My dark hut lacks life and freshness The body of my reed-flute is brittle from dryness As the separation of lovers, who would fain meet again The rain-messenger, Darvag, when is the rain? In the introduction to his anthology of modern Persian poetry, Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak notes that one of…

Today, a controversial land-use planning law is expected to go up for a plenary vote after being fast-tracked past its Knesset committee. Designed to increase the number of housing units built in Israel, the Vatmal Law (חוק הותמ”ל) was passed in response to a stark rise in housing prices that…