This article gives the background to a public lecture delivered in Hebrew by Edmund Landau at the opening ceremony of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1925. On the surface, the lecture appears to be a slightly awkward attempt by a distinguished German-Jewish mathematician to popularize a few number-theoretical tidbits. However, quite unexpectedly, what emerges here is Landau’s personal ble...

In July 1950, Moroccan Rabbi Yahya Ben Harosh wrote a letter to his students chastising those exposed ultraOrthodox anti-Zionist influences for disparaging and denigrating Zionist leaders the founders of State Israel. This article discusses historical background letter, including ideological foundation rabbi’s vigorous protest: from position regarding messianic concept religious affirmation Zio...

It has been almost two years since I spoke at IDEC 2006, my last formal encounter with Democratic Education. In my talk at the conference I discussed the history of the state of Israel from the beginning of the Zionist movement until today. Using a PowerPoint presentation I outlined the effect of the Zionist movement on our land, emphasizing the current realities of occupation, discrimination a...

This paper examines the discourse regarding medical selection of immigrants to Israel during the years 1948-51, which was a period of mass immigration in which approximately 700,000 people immigrated to the State, thereby doubling the Jewish population in only three years. The paper focuses on the debate the preceded the Israeli Government's eventual acceptance of a selection policy. We assert ...