Tag: jerusalem 50, six day war
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...
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...
Whither Israel, post-1967?
Chris LeppekMay 18, 2017
anniversaries — such as next Wednesday’s commemoration of 50 years since the reunification of Jerusalem — are great opportunities to gaze at the past [Section B]....
