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EDITORIAL

Welcome to the latest edition of Iton Habonim Dror – a
special issue dedicated to Channukah.

We’ve got plenty of content from around the world
including profiles, artwork and movement members
sharing their thoughts on a variety of topics.

Between all this, we feature our Channukah content - texts
which reflect the modern reclamation of the festival from
the (passive / traditional) narrative of the miracle of the oil,
to the Jewish people taking our fate into their own hands.

For example, Martin Buber talked about how “at the start
of the last quarter of the last century [the 19th century],
that same part of Judaism, when humans remained as an
essential and creative force, to observe and insist on their
nationalism, one of their thoughts was to rouse this festival
with a national character, to renew the expression of the
national memory and the national hope”. And he
continues, “In this festival the memory of an unknown
heroic period with belief in the future to come, historic
pictures merge with pictures of dreams, and words that
came to praise the heroism of the past call for a new
heroism…. The design of this new image into a festival was
not coincidental, but rather the fruit of expression of the
new process in our faith.

Please send any suggestions, corrections, contributions and
retributions to
iton@habonimdror.net

Chag Channukah Sameach,

Anton