The centuries we leave out of Israel’s story
Between a burning Temple and a declaration read aloud in Tel Aviv, nearly two millennia of Jewish life often disappears from the story we tell. In this one, Rome destroys Jerusalem, the Jews go into…
Assessment
The article argues that the standard narrative of Jewish history skips from the Roman destruction of the Second Temple to the Holocaust and the founding of Israel, erasing nearly two thousand years of continuous Jewish presence in the land. That gap weakens the case for Jewish sovereignty by making it look like a sudden, externally imposed fix rather than the resumption of an unbroken relationship. The piece is pushing for a historical reframing that centers the centuries of Jewish life, scholarship, and community in the land between those two bookend catastrophes. Watch for whether this argument gains traction in public discourse or remains a niche historical correction.