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But I worry about a mentality that sees the world as forever against you, and that sees no alternative but never ending resistance. What does it do to a community to live with such suspicion? What does it do to its youth to live with such cynicism? I must admit that there is some considerable evidence on her side. Oslo failed. Gaza failed. The withdrawal from Lebanon failed. The forces that have replaced Mubarak in Egypt are not more peace loving or friendly to Israel and the West than he was. The likelihood seems to be that those who will replace Assad in Syria will not be any more liberal or any more pro-Western or pro-Israel than he was. And yet, I am not sure that a community can live a healthy life with no belief in a better future, and no expectation that peace is ever possible. I hope Sarah Honig is wrong in this diatribe, for Israel's sake. I know there is a terrible risk in being naïve, as she makes so clear so many times in this book, but I fear that there is a risk in being too unwilling to hope too. Perhaps someone can make the case for a worldview somewhere in between naiveté and the anger of this book. I hope so. Rabbi Jack Riemer is a regular reviewer for many journals in America, Europe and Israel. He is the co editor of So That Your Values Live On: A Treasury of Ethical Wills, and the editor of The World of the High Holy Days. Rabbi Jack Riemer This superb collection of articles from the incomparable Sarah Honig is called 'Debunking the Bull,' and what a delightful debunking it is. But it’s more than that. It is a work of passion and erudition, of insight and observation, of clarity and punch. You will pick it up and find yourself reading just one more column, and then another, and then another. 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Dov Indig was killed on October 7, 1973, in a holding action on the Golan Heights in Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Letters to Talia, published in his memory by family and friends, contains excerpts from an extensive correspondence Dov maintained with Talia, a girl from an irreligious kibbutz in northern Israel, in 1972 and ’73, the last two years of his life. At the time, Talia was a highschool student, and Dov was a student in the Hesder yeshiva Kerem B’Yavneh, which combines Torah study with military service. It was Talia’s father who suggested that Talia correspond with Dov, and an intense dialogue developed between them on questions of Judaism and Zionism, values and education. Their correspondence continued right up to Dov’s death in the Yom Kippur War. 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But between the anxiety of a damaged civilization and the hope of a young nation returning to the supernatural heritage of its roots, the choice can seem uncertain still. Abraham Livni draws from the traditional sources of Jewish thought and analyzes the reasons for the failure of a civilization who had attempted to strip the ancient people of Israel of their Land, of their Bible and of their identity. He allows us to discover in the history of the Jewish people the backbone of the complete human adventure, witnessing History, prototype, carrier of the only hope of salvation for the modern world. Abraham Livni was 20 years old when he discovered the horror of the Holocaust. He then searched to solve the mystery of anti-Semitic hate. A long intellectual and spiritual quest drove him to Judaism and to settle in Jerusalem in the 1960s. 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A year ago, I reread his Letters to an American Jewish Friend, which decades later stands as one of the smartest, sharpest explorations of the delicate relationship between the committed Diaspora Jew and the Aliyah-making Zionist. As I read the book, one page after another was loosened from the binding, and I thought, “Boy we need a new edition of this book.” I am thrilled to welcome this classic – with a compelling, inspiring new introduction by the author. The issues are remarkably relevant, the writing remains fluid, the passion infectious, the insights profound. New generations of readers will be inspired by this, and older generations of readers will eagerly greet this new edition like an old – and long yearned-for – friend. Gil Troy , author, Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as Racism and Why I Am A Zionist Three and a half decades ago, the appearance of Hillel Halkin’s Letters to an American Jewish Friend sent shockwaves through the American Jewish community. 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