Hebron-Past, Present and Foreverby David Wilder Connecticut-Hebron-JerusalemAugust 27, 1995 On Friday evening, before the beginning of Shabbat prayers, a good friend of mine, (andone of the best tour guides in the country), Haim Mageni, approached me and asked me if Irecognized the pictures in last weeks’ newspapers. I responded no, I hadn’t seen anything out ofthe ordinary – what was […]
Read moreDelegitimization of a species – the Death of Ideals August 20, 1995 Friday evening Israel Television broadcast a feature concerning the inadequacy of Hebron’s water supply. I quote from today’s Jerusalem Post editorial: “But the fact is that many Arab residents do not get water for days, weeks and months…At the same time, the 450 Jews living in the […]
Read moreHebron-Past,Present and Foreverby David Wilder The Hebron Massacre- August, 1929August 10, 1995 Next Monday, the 18th of Av marks the 66th anniversary of the 1929 riots that plagued Eretz Yisrael. Jews were murdered throughout the land, but the worst slaughter was in Hebron. What was the relationship between the then Jewish Community of Hebron with their Arab neighbors? We have […]
Read moreThe past week has been extremely turbulent. The struggle over the Dagan Hill in Efrat, and the addition to Beit El, climaxed with the arrest, detention and release of Efrat’s Rabbi Shlomo Riskin. Rabbi Riskin, having left the Lincoln Square Synagogue pulpit in Manhattan, for the Biblical landscape of the Judean Hills, is never far from productivity, or controversy. He […]
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