by Avraham Burg
worldview, 176–177
Leibowitz, Yeshayahu, 18, 87, 95–96, 114, 144–147, 285–286
Leipzig, 306
Lev, Yisrael, 25, 45
LGBT rights, 159
liberal democracy, future of, 231
library, author’s, 123–124
Likud
partnership with Labor Party, 99
revolutionary conservatism, 53
Lindbergh, Charles, 230
living room, of Burg family home, 125
Lurie, Brian, 151–153, 159
Maalouf, Amin, 42–43
Maariv (newspaper), 98
Maccabee, 11–12
Maimonides, 41, 43
Malchei Yisrael Square demonstration (1982), 83–85, 87
March of the Living, 283–284
marriage, mixed, 241
Masorti community, 211
matzah, 13
Mea Shearim quarter, 47, 126
Mediterranean confederation, 247
meetings, 263
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 255
Meir, Golda, 283, 287
Mendelssohn, Moses, 306
menorah, author’s construction of, 9–10, 13
mentality of weakness, 17
Merkel, Angela, 303
Michaelis, Eugen, 77
military service, 60–66
minyan, 141
Mishkovsky, Zelda Schneurson, 172
modesty, 38
money, Jews and, 217
monotheism, 40, 173
moon, new, 227
moon landing, 227
Mount Gerizim, 51
Mount Herzl, 13
Mount Moriah, 173
Mount Sinai, 19
Mount Zion, 17
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 118
music, author’s education in, 25
Nahal infantry brigade, 59, 61
names, 171–176
nationalism
American, 218
German, 270, 278
Israeli, 197–198, 210
Jewish, 147, 177, 210, 294
Palestinian, 17
Zionist, 145, 198
Nazis, 155, 250–251, 259–260, 284
Helmut, life story of, 269–279
Hitler, 255, 270–274, 301–302
Hitler Youth, 270–271
Vienna and, 301–302, 307
Negev desert, 266–267
Netiv Meir yeshiva, 29
Neturei Karta sect, 47
Neue Synagoge, 284–285
New Israel Fund, 151
Nimrod, 171–173
Nissan, Reb, 46
Noam youth movement, 211
noncommissioned officers training, 61–62
North America, Jewish community in, 206–208, 210
Nuremberg, 271
occupied territories, 67–68, 233, 240
Olympic games (Munich 1972), 39, 259
orthodoxy
of author’s parents, 30, 205
author’s repulsion from, 296
Doxa watch and, 28
Oslo accords, 100, 177–178
paganism, Jewish, 132
Paideia, 211–212
Palestinians, 233–246
in Lebanon, 74
refugee camps, 82–83, 89, 233, 235, 238
Sabra and Shatila massacre, 82–83, 89
Palmach militia, 48
parachute jumps, 74
Pardes Hanna, 60
parental authority, 7
partition, 243–245
Passover, 13, 183, 210
passport, European, 225
peace efforts
assumption of separation, 241
international, 240
Israeli-Egypt peace process, 67–71
Israeli-Jordanian peace agreement (1994), 242
three-story house analogy, 244–246
Peace for Galilee war, 79
peace industry, 240
Peace Now movement, 70–71, 81
peacekeeping forces, 216
Pell, Dan (son of Avraham), 198–200
Pell, Natan (son of Avraham), 289–290
“people like us,” 29, 31, 296
Peres, Shimon, 64
after Labor Party internal elections of 1992, 103–104
Avraham’s joining of Labor Party, 87
on compromise, 111
at Malchei Yisrael Square demonstration (1982), 84, 87
Nobel Peace Prize, 111
opportunism and hypocrisy of, 104
promises from, 88
thirst for popularity, 88–89
Phalangists, 82
Pinchas, Phil, 211
PLO, in Lebanon, 75
politics
Avraham’s entry into, 80–81
basic strategies in, 108
Malchei Yisrael Square demonstration, 83–85
Pollard, Jonathan, 225–226
pollution, 107
Porat, Hanan, 64, 68
pork law, 96
Prague, 305
prayer ritual, 141
prayer shawl, 27, 167
prisoner of war camps, 273, 275–277
protests
four-hundred-thousand-people protest, 86
Malchei Yisrael Square demonstration (1982), 83–85, 87
street protest of February 1983, 89–91
public servant, 97–98
public speaking, 208–209
Purim, 13
purity of Jewish blood, 242
Putin, Vladimir, 229
rabbi yeshiva teachers, 45–46
Rabin, Yitzhak, 14–15, 64
after Labor Party internal elections of 1992, 103
author’s feelings toward, 15
at Malchei Yisrael Square demonstration (1982), 84
murder of, 178
Oslo accords, 177–178
“stinking maneuver,” 99
threats from, 103
racism, 54, 214, 250
Radetzky March (Roth), 304
Ramim, 45
Ramon, Haim, 100–101
Rashi, 43, 51
Ratisbonne Monastery, 7
Red Army, 273–274
redemption, 107–108, 147, 296
Reform Jews, 7, 46, 152
refugee camps, 82–83, 89, 233, 235, 238
refugees, 152, 219, 233, 236–240, 243, 303
religion and state, relationship of, 23–24, 87
Burg’s efforts toward separation of, 53, 95–96, 101–102, 146–147, 149
Burg’s writings on, 132
destructiveness of, 147
Joseph Burg and, 21, 23, 148
Labor Party and, 100–104
Leibowitz and, 145, 286
Peres’s position on, 103–104
religious extremism, 101
religious fundamentalism, 132
religious law, 37, 146, 157
religious tolerance, lack of, 31
religious Zionism, 70–71, 101
author’s leaving of political, 149
Avraham’s parents and, 22–23, 30, 55, 138, 145
children/youth of, 47–48
compromise as characteristic of, 47
Hanan Porat and associates, 64
Hatzofeh (newspaper), 36
joining with nationalist conservatives, 53
in Kfar Etzion, 49
Netiv Meir yeshiva, 29
secular Israeli community relationship with, 46
Simon’s critique of, 145
ultra-Orthodox community relationship with, 45–46
Yaakov Yosef Moshe Slonim and, 184
repentance, 278
reserve duty, 289
right of return, 239
right wing, Israel
extremist and innovative nature of, 110
government, 53, 77
Righteous Gentile, 179, 188, 252
rights, 235, 237, 244, 250
ritual circumcisions, 96–97
Rivlin, Reuven, 93, 117, 144
Rosh Hashanah massacre (1982), 8
2–83
Rotberg, Ro’i, 235
Roth, Joseph, 304
running, by author, 107, 119, 129–132, 206–207, 259–260, 287–288
Russia, 272–276
Sabbath, observance of, 43–45, 124
Sabra massacre, 82–83, 89
Sadat, Anwar, 65–67, 69–71
Samaritan, 51
San Francisco area Jewish Community Federation, 151
Schmidt, Christoph, 234
Scholem, Gershom, 182, 282–283
Schulz, Martin, 222
Schweid, Eliezer, 230
Sebastia, 64
security, 246
Selassie, Haile, 126–127
separation, principle of, 241–243, 245
Sephardic Jews, 214
settlements, 37, 79, 110, 132, 140, 253
Begin’s meeting with women settlers (1982), 79
guarding by Israel Defense Forces, 199
Gush Emunim movement, 110
Hebron, 50, 185–186, 253
Joseph Burg and, 50, 52
Kfar Etzion, 48–49, 64
politics and, 231
in Samaria, 63
in Sinai, 68, 71, 73
West Bank, 64, 73, 110
Shaker, Abu, 184–189, 191, 197, 202–203
Shaker, Umm, 184–187, 193–195
shamash, 10–12
Shamir, Moshe, 53
Shamir, Yitzhak, 99
Shammai, school of, 297–298
Sharon, Ariel, 73–77, 89, 117–118
Shatila massacre, 82–83, 89
Shavuot, 13–14, 17
Shemi, Alon, 77–78
Shenhav, Yehouda, 247
Shimoni, David, 140
Shinui Party, 101
ships, allegory of, 108–109
shmichik, 117–118
Shohat, Nahshon, 129
shtetl, 111
siege mentality, 67, 98
Simon, Akiva Ernst, 142–143, 145
Sinai Campaign (1956), 66
Sinai Peninsula, 65–66, 68, 70–71
Burg family vacations to, 98–99
settlements, 68, 71, 73
Singer, Israel, 216
Six-Day War (1967), 52, 75, 150
aftermath of, 15–17, 48, 50, 68, 110, 139, 147, 192, 195
author’s experiences during, 5–9, 15–17
World War II compared to, 228, 230–231
skepticism, 33–34
skullcap. See kippah
Slezkine, Yuri, 293–294
Slonim, Eliezer Dan, 185, 201
Slonim, Malka, 186–188, 193, 203
Slonim, Shlomo, 186, 192, 201
Slonim, Yaakov Yosef Moshe, 184–187
“small boat” political strategy, 108
Soldiers Against Silence, 78
songs
Chanukah, 11–13
marching, 12–13
patriotic, 37
sound archive, National Library, 25
Soviet Union, 229, 293
Speer, Albert, 259
sports, 32–34, 131
stumbling blocks, 238
Swaggart, Jimmy, 209
Swiss banks, 216–217
synagogue
author’s attendance of, 141–143
Reform, 7, 152
Talmud
burning of, 41
Joseph Burg’s teaching of, 140, 297
matriculation exam, 54–57
study of, 36–37
Tammuz, Benjamin, 294–295
Tapuah Junction, 289
Tchernichovsky, Shaul, 206
Tea Party, 231
tefillin, 24, 27, 63, 140, 167, 205
Tel Rumeida, 202
televangelist, 208–209
Temple, destruction of, 298
Temple Mount, 17
Temple movement, 54
Tennenbaum, Lea, 126
terrorist attacks in Jerusalem (1978), 33
Third Temple, 54
three-story house analogy, 244–246
Tibet, 264–266
Tisser, Velvey, 190–191
Tobianski trial, 127
Tomb of the Patriarchs, 193, 200–201
Torah, 19, 55–56
reading at bar mitzvah, 24
Shavuot celebration, 14
ultra-Orthodox, 25
in woman’s voice, 162
Torah Temimah (Epstein), 19–20
trade unions, 100
tragedy, constant wait for, 117
transitional word, 209
Trump, Donald, 229–230, 302
Tutu, Desmond, 292
Tzobel, Yaakov, 77
ultra-Orthodox
criticism of religious Zionism by, 46
hatred of, 101
Hebron yeshiva, 25
in Mea Shearim quarter, 47, 126
moralizers, 38
Neturei Karta sect, 47
politics/parties, 96–97, 101, 103
yeshiva teachers, 45
United Jewish Appeal, 4
United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA), 238
United States
assimilation, 218
author’s visits to, 151–153, 206–210, 213
individualism and competitiveness in, 229–230
Jewish community in, 151–153, 206–207
Uzi cartridges, use in menorah, 9, 13
Valley of Hinnom, 18
Vanunu, Mordechai, 115–116
Vessely, Baruch, 135
vest, army, 182
Vienna, 200, 219–222, 240–242, 301–308
Villa Lea, 125–127
volleyball, 32–34, 61
walls and fences, 49–50
War of Independence (1948), 16, 31, 49, 239
wars, ending of, 15–16
Warsaw, 238
watch, Doxa, 26, 28
wedding, 157–160
of Roni and Ariel, 258–259
same-sex, 159–160
of Yael and Avraham, 67
Weizman, Ezer, 68
West Bank, 64, 73, 110, 200, 235, 239
Western Wall
cults attached to, 18
visit by author’s parents (1967), 8–9
Wilders, Geert, 302
witches, 38
women
equality, 165–166, 168–170, 176
exclusion and treatment of, 37–39, 141–142, 161
Jewish weddings and, 157–160
purity of Jewish blood, 242
reading and singing Torah, 162
World Jewish Congress, 216
The World of Yesterday (Zweig), 301, 304
World War I, 16, 228, 256, 307
World War II, 228, 247, 251, 272–276
World Zionist Organization, Burg as chairman of, 14–15, 216
writing, author’s, 128–129, 132
God Is Back, 132
The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise from Its Ashes, 285, 305
mother’s encouragement, 190
xenophobia, 160, 214, 256
Xerxes I, 13
Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, 167
Yarkon River, 107
Yellin-Steklis, Miriam, 95
Yemin Moshe neighborhood, 50
yeshivas, 25, 29–32, 37, 296
adult, 45
college-level, 55–56
hesder, 55, 60
matriculation exam in Talmud, 54–57
rabbi teachers, 45–46
ultra-Orthodox, 25
Yeshurun synagogue, 143
Yom Kippur War (1973), 59–61, 65, 76
youth movements
author’s, 35–37
Bnei Akiva, 37, 47, 49
Hashomer Hatzair, 47
Hitler Youth, 270–271
Noam, 211
Zionist movement
author’s parents and, 22–23
Chanukah songs and, 12
children’s Shavuot march and, 15
Hatzofeh newspaper, 36
Rabin and, 16
religious
Zionism, 22–23, 36, 46–48, 53, 64, 70–71, 101, 138, 145, 149
Zurich, 136–138, 151, 217
Zweig, Stefan, 220, 301–306
Zygier, Ben, 225–226
