Commemorating a historic day for the Jewish people | Opinion

Seventy-six years ago, on Nov. 29, 1947, the Jewish people held out our hands for the hope and prayer of peace with our Arab neighbors when we accepted the United Nations Partition Resolution (Resolution 181).

Each year, the we celebrate Nov. 29 because it represents the anniversary of the world’s recognition of our right to self-determination. We gained sovereignty in our historic homeland just a few years after the Holocaust. The nation was resurrected from the ashes of Auschwitz and...