Passover Reflections on Jewish, Islamic and American History
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“No people has ever insisted more firmly than the Jews that history has a purpose and humanity a destiny,” Paul Johnson wrote in “A History of the Jews” (1987). Reflecting on Passover, the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks observed that in retelling the saga of the exodus from Egypt, Jews commit themselves to a “momentous proposition: that history has meaning” and that “we are not condemned endlessly to repeat the tragedies of the past.” — William Galston, “
Passover Reflections on Jewish, Islamic and American History
Passover Reflections on Jewish, Islamic and…
Passover Reflections on Jewish, Islamic and American History
“No people has ever insisted more firmly than the Jews that history has a purpose and humanity a destiny,” Paul Johnson wrote in “A History of the Jews” (1987). Reflecting on Passover, the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks observed that in retelling the saga of the exodus from Egypt, Jews commit themselves to a “momentous proposition: that history has meaning” and that “we are not condemned endlessly to repeat the tragedies of the past.” — William Galston, “