The Future
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One State, Two States: Reviewed
In 2009, Israeli historian Benny Morris published a book called One State, Two States on the history of proposed solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, attitudes toward them on both sides, and possibilities for the future. He paints both solutions as undesirable: the two state because the borders are unnatural and difficult to draw, the water…
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Rabbi Dov Lando: It would have been better if the Arabs were in power
On Feb 7, 2025, Rabbi Eliav Miller, from the organization Lev Shomea, visited Rabbi Dov Lando, Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka, Bnei Brak, and asked some questions about the current situation with yeshiva bochurim facing forced conscription into the IDF. Rabbi Miller: But people say it’s only the founders of the Zionist idea who were bad,…
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Rabbi Dan Segal shlita, the Mashgiach, on the Three Oaths and a practical way to end the state
In reaction to the Merkaz Harav terror attack on March 6, 2008, in which 8 students were killed: The secular leaders of the State of Israel are placing us in danger. Here there is a greater danger than any other place, because things are more serious here due to the holiness of Eretz Yisroel. They…
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Rabbi Wein’s view of the anti-Zionist movement
In honor of Rabbi Berel Wein zt”l, who passed away last month at the age of 91, I’m publishing a letter he wrote to a friend of mine in 2011, with my response at the time. 5/19/2011 Rabbi Wein is in town and I sent him an email about how I have come to identify…
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Comments on Tony Judt’s Article
In an effort to explore the one-state solution and what various scholars have written about it in the past, today we’ll comment on an essay by the late Tony Judt of NYU, published in the New York Review of Books on October 23, 2003. The essay has been credited with bringing the one-state solution into…
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Claim: True, the Three Oaths prohibit a state, but once the state is already here, it’s permitted
First, what would be the logic behind this? Violating the oaths of exile is akin to heresy: it is an implicit denial that Hashem is the one to decide when the bring about the redemption. If someone is a heretic once, are they allowed to continue being one? The Brisker Rav said, “Two things are…
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Changing Israeli Demographics – Diluting the State’s Jewish Population
Proponents of the one-state solution are faced with daunting challenges. Yes, it would solve the halachic issue of a Jewish state before the messiah. (The number of Palestinians, Israeli Arabs and other non-Jews already today outnumber Jews between the river and the sea.) And it would offer an opportunity for Israelis and Palestinians to live…
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Rabbi Avraham Weinfeld (1930-1987): The innocent bystander approach
Shailos Utshuvos Lev Avraham, Siman 129: It is now more than eight years since the Zionist leaders declared a Jewish state in a part of Eretz Yisroel. Since that time, opinions in the Jewish world have been divided. Some say it was good; they see it as the beginning of redemption, that Hashem has visited…
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Okay, but what do we do about it now?
The purpose of my book was to raise awareness of a problem. How to solve it is another story. In fact, many people have questioned the purpose in studying a subject when we have no workable solution. Therefore, I’ve dedicated this section of the site, “The Future” to talking about the solutions that have been…
I Will Await Him 