The Chosen Lesson Plan

What events allow Danny and Reuven to reunite?

Israel becomes an official country, and violence in the region escalates as a result. One of the recent graduates from Hirsch College is killed in Jerusalem. This brings the violence home for many of the Jewish families in New York. Reb Saunders’ anti-Zionist movement leaves the campus and slowly loses steam. We do not know what Reb Saunders is thinking. However, one can reasonably conclude that the violence the Jews are enduring in the fight for their own land in the wake of the Holocaust convinced Reb Saunders that perhaps a Jewish state is worth fighting for. Or, at least, he may have decided that to honor the lives of the...