E xactly a hundred years ago the Balfour Declaration was issued in support of a national home for the Jewish people. At the same time the Communist revolution took over the Russian Empire casting a blanket of darkness over much of Europe. Can we begin to see the common thread between the two which will be visible in all its brightness with the final curtain call?
As the last rays of the year 2017 begin to sink toward the horizon I look back over the past hundred years and tremble. What a century of upheaval of pain and angst it has been! Is there any meaning to it all? Does it tell us anything about what we can expect in years to come?
One hundred years ago this month two world-shaking events took place seemingly unrelated to each other. But today after the passage of a century and all that has transpired in that span of time things emerge more connected than at first glance.
In November 1917 the Balfour Declaration was issued in London and the Bolshevik Revolution toppled the Russian Provisional Government in St. Petersburg. Both events changed the world radically and changed life for the Jewish People in particular.
