Author Archive: David N. Myers
Remembering Rabbi David Ellenson (z”l)
NIF’s past board president David Myers remembers Rabbi David Ellenson, renowned scholar, teacher and thinker, and beloved by so many in the NIF community.
Yom Kippur, 2023: A Day of Awe
Since the middle ages, the long Jewish holiday season that begins with Rosh Hashanah has been called Ha-Yamim Ha-Noraim, or the “Days of Awe”. This term seems especially appropriate in our current political moment. How else to describe the mortal threat to democracy, civil society, and the rule of law in Israel if not as…