Tag: jerusalem 50
Too old to crawl like a rat into a dark hole
Hillel GoldbergJun 15, 2017
Everybody is talking about how the Six Day War changed Israel forever. It’s true, but it’s also not true. There is no better evidence for the enduring...
Six days . . . five things
Ron Kampeas, JTAJun 02, 2017
JERUSALEM — The three paratroopers casting eyes upward at the Western Wall. The troops reveling in the waters of the Suez Canal. The sweeping views of a Galilee no...
Jerusalem-ness accompanies me
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 18, 2017
I missed being born in Jerusalem by one year. We moved there when I was a year old. My birthplace is Boston. But I always felt I was “of Jerusalem,” […]
June, 1967: I.T. and I rode the crest
Hillel GoldbergMay 18, 2017
“I. T.,” I called my best friend in college. I.T. and I had quite a reputation for activism, having (among other projects) saved the JTS library after it suffered a...
Reunified Jerusalem at 50
IJN Editorial StaffMay 18, 2017
Russia recognizes West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. No predicted dire consequences ensue. Trump should follow suit. If not now, when? The IJN has published a...
Where we were, what we felt, in 1967: Four Denverites remember
Chris LeppekMay 18, 2017
The IJN solicited verbal postcards from Denverites who lived through the Six Day War, June 5-10, 1967. Clara Elefant My husband had a sabbatical coming in 1962 so we...
Where we were, what we felt, in 1967: Five Denverites reflect
Andrea JacobsMay 18, 2017
The IJN solicited verbal postcards from Denverites who lived through the Six Day War, June 5-10, 1967. Crisp, animated memories range from white-knuckle fear that the...
Denverite in the war in 1967
Hillel GoldbergMay 18, 2017
has changed, but the memories of 1967 have not. At least not if you served in that decisive war. The politics have colored the intervening years. Was this war, imposed...
Suddenly
Hillel GoldbergMay 18, 2017
It didn’t seem particularly unusual at the time. It just seemed like a workable — and free — living arrangement. But in May-June, 1968, I was one of only two...