For Yom HaShoah: "From Holocaust to Independence, From Destruction to Rebirth"

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Apr 18, 2023 · 29m

This past Sunday, I shared with two congregations in the Northeast some thoughts about the situation in Israel, with today’s commemoration of Yom HaShoah very much in mind.

One of the themes I focused on was the notion of me-churban le-binyan (“from destruction to rebuilding”), which has become a central theme of the story of the Jewish people that many of us tell ourselves and each other, in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the State of Israel. I sought to explain how the events transpiring in Israel threaten that narrative, and therefore, are as potentially existential for Diaspora Jewish…