‘This will sear Jews and Arabs for years to come...’
Joseph Steinberg
Date posted: 1 Nov 2023
Isaiah 40:1 ‘Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.’
When I was eight years old, I remember sitting in front of my family’s black and white television while watching the Yom Kippur war unfolding in front of my eyes. It was exactly 50 years ago and, as a Jewish boy growing up in the USA, it was my first realisation that there was a country named Israel that Jewish people call home.