[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands! - Itzhak Peretz

"For the commandment is a lamp" [Prov. 6.23]. And the spark which kindles the commandment is devotion.

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude, the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.