Mareh Makom

Home

• Home: The eternal journey between international recognition and national identity
  Does a home need recognition to be a home?
  His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object,
• Home and the question of ownership: A journey between the private and public domain
  Who really owns the space we live in?
  'Fool! Why are you clearing stones from a domain that is not yours into a domain that is yours?!'
• Home: Where the divine becomes family
  Why was it Jacob, of all people, who came to call God's place a 'house'?
  The God of Jacob, and not the God of Abraham and Isaac?
• Home: From a universal human right to a Zionist vision of the five Ms
  Does home come before freedom, or is freedom the prerequisite for a home?
  Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family,
• Home: Between functional walls and a sanctuary for the soul
  Is a home merely a physical structure for basic survival, or does it carry a deeper meaning?
  The partnership created by way of nature for everyday needs is therefore the household, whose members Charondas calls "companions to the table," and Epimenides the Cretan calls them "companions to the manger."