Doron Perez, at The Blogs

May 21, 2020, 8:00 PM

Remarkable Days that Changed the Course of History The six days from June 5th to June 10th, 1967 are without parallel in the story of human warfare. The sensational speed and brevity of the war, the sudden and startling drastic twists,...

Apr 6, 2020, 11:03 PM

Crises and Corona – A Pesach Perspective

The following story is a personal one, our family story. One that my grandfather of blessed memory would tell us time and time again. It was about his lucky escape from Lithuania as a 17-year-old boy with his family...

Mar 5, 2020, 12:02 PM

Purim and Zionism

A Time for 20/20 Vision It has been just over 120 years since Herzl founded the World Zionist Organization and a little over 70 since the establishment of the State of Israel. This year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar affords...

Feb 6, 2020, 4:50 PM

Cherry Tomato Champions – The Love of a Land for a People

The story of the regeneration of the Land of Israel – its soil and shrubs, plants and trees, flora and fruits, is one of the greatest stories of human accomplishment. An ecological marvel, unrivaled in the annals of recorded...

Dec 23, 2019, 12:36 PM

The impact of so few on so many

There are less Jews in the world than a rounding error of a Chinese population census. I read a few years ago that an acceptable mistake in such a census is 30 million – double the number of Jews in the...

Nov 21, 2019, 8:24 PM

The Obsession with Land

Credit: Yishai Fleisher, Hebron Spokesman

I was not born into a religious family but grew up in a warm and traditional South African Jewish home. To the great credit of my dear parents, and through the influence of a young dynamic rabbi, we began...

Oct 10, 2019, 6:46 PM

Israel: The Happiest Place in the World?

My grandparents were married for 75 years. They passed away over the last two years, both at the age of 97. At their 75th wedding anniversary, I thought to myself that I had never met or known of another...

Sep 26, 2019, 5:53 PM

The Personal and the Public – The Dual Judgment of Rosh Hashanah

We are all judged not once but twice. Two days of Rosh Hashanah – two very different judgments. We are judged once as an individual and the other as part of the collective. One is a reckoning of our...

Aug 7, 2019, 2:57 PM

Senseless Hatred – Cause and Cure

Stones thrown by the Romans from the Second Temple to the street below after the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE.

How is it possible to be genuinely kind to someone and to hate them at the same time? Remarkably, this is what the Talmud seems to say regarding the spiritual cause of the destruction of the Second Temple: “During the Second...

May 29, 2019, 9:37 PM

Sinai & Moriah – A Tale of Two Mountains

Zion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat, and Haim Oshri, the three paratroopers from the iconic photo from June 7, 1967, recreate the pose in celebration of the 50th anniversary of that historic date two years ago. (World Mizrachi / Photo credit: Sharon Gabay)

Throughout Jewish history, two mountains stand out more than any others – Mount Sinai and Mount Moriah. They are so different. One is nestled in the heart of a barren wilderness and the other – the Temple Mount –...

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Rabbi Doron Perez is the Chief Executive of the Mizrachi World Movement, a global Religious Zionist movement based in Jerusalem with many active branches around the world. He is an organizational leader, sought after international speaker and author.

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