It is not difficult to look at Israel today and offer criticisms. In fact, it is tragically easy. It is not difficult to look at the world from the perspective of a Jew today, and be scared, worried, anxious, and depressed. It is not difficult to look at American Jewry today, and wonder how it ever got so bad. None of these things are difficult, and many of us, perhaps even most of us, can agree on the manifest problems that we see. Where it does become difficult, is upon trying to offer answers to these problems, which necessitates a more positive approach, attitude, and often a bitachon b'hashem (trust/faith in Hashem). Many of us have heard the joke that begins with a Jew stranded on an Island. Upon his rescue from the island, two shuls are discovered. One of the rescueers asks why he built two shuls just for himself. The Jew answers, "That shul is the one I go to, and the one over there, is the one I don't go to." We are known for being a people of infinite opinions and incredible divisiveness. I do not believe that this sort of indecision, ambiguity, and fracturing of the Jewish People is necessary. Rather it is something we have created. There can be difference within unity. A rainbow is made up of many colors, but it is only one rainbow. True unity will come when our differences are the strength of our relationship, not its weakness. That is why we need K'Cholmim today. K'Cholmim seeks to provide an authentically Jewish Answer to the problems that today's Jewish State and the Jewish People face. The vision of K'Cholmim is one of a unified and complete Jewish life consisting of Torat Yisrael, Eretz Yisrael, and Am Yisrael. Equally important however, is that the vision that K'Cholmim will seek to present is not a dogmatic one, there can be a unified Jewish life within the framework of Torah (Torat Yisrael), and Israel (Eretz Yisrael), and brotherhood of Jews (Am Yisrael) that still has an enormous amount of diversity within it. As the Sages told us, "There are 70 faces to the Torah." The Sages were the ones who provided us with the Jewish Law, and established normative Judaism, but even within that, they were aware that there is more than 'one truth' that indeed, the Torah, the foundation of Truth for a Jew, has 70 faces to it. In the following paragraphs we will attempt to begin laying out the philosophy and vision of K'Cholmim, and explain why it is of utter importance to the healthy survival of the Jewish People.

In order to try and do justice to each of the many complex topics that are involved in the vision of K'Cholmim we will dedicate separated articles to each topic. While these individual articles will comprise a complete article and idea (God willing), they are intended to be read in order and as part of a greater system (or towards a and understanding of a greater system).

It would seem that the first aspect of the claim of K'Cholmim that needs explanation and justification is that there is any value or need for a 'vision of a unified and complete Jewish life encompassing Torah Yisrael, Eretz Yisrael, and Am Yisrael." As an aside we would like to point out, that this issue is in part dealt with in the essay by Yishai Fleisher whose article can be found here.