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Dan Illouz
Jul 5, 2018, 6:33 PM
Olim can be Jerusalem’s great opportunity
Jerusalem is the most beautiful and fascinating city in the world. Israel’s capital is filled with history, diversity, dynamic culture and simple beauty. Jerusalem is also one of the most challenging cities in Israel. Its great diversity also sometimes creates...
Esor Ben-Sorek
Jul 3, 2018, 1:46 AM
The Fast I Don’t Fast
In the heat of the summers of my youth, on the 9th day of the month of Av (Tisha B’Av) I would go to the synagogue, remove my shoes and sit on the floor and by the light of...
Richard H. Schwartz
Jul 2, 2018, 11:09 PM
My Response to an Article Claiming “The Left is the Greatest Existential Threat Facing Israel”
This article is a response to an article, “The Left is the greatest existential threat facing Israel,” that appeared in the Arutz Sheva Israel National News publication on July 2, 2018. 1. A very strong majority of Democratic politicians strongly...
Chananya Weissman
Jul 2, 2018, 2:34 PM
My visit to the US Embassy in Jerusalem
A couple of weeks ago I had occasion to visit the new US Embassy in Jerusalem, which was relocated to my neighborhood a few days earlier to be closer to me. Upon reaching the security guards outside the entrance...
Joshua Gerstein
Jul 2, 2018, 11:15 AM
Dr. Theodor Herzl & Building the 3rd Temple
Yesterday marked the commemoration of the 17th of Tammuz, a day of fasting and reflection and the start of the "three week" mourning period culminating in the somber day of remembrance Tisha BaAv, the Ninth of Av. In addition...
Menachem Creditor
Jul 2, 2018, 11:12 AM
Redemption in a Mighty Jewish Rumpus
The past seventy-two hours have offered an amazing array gifts of comfort and inspiration to this rabbi's heart. No verbal description could possibly do the experience justice. But here goes: I'm at Camp Ramah in Northern California, my third summer...
Wendy Kalman
Jul 2, 2018, 11:11 AM
When my soul comes home
Last Sunday I traveled to Israel for the first time since I moved back to the United States in 2003, accompanied by my fiancé who had never visited before. For me, it felt like a long-delayed coming home, For...
Andy Blumenthal
Jul 1, 2018, 3:20 PM
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Ariel Ben Avraham
Jun 30, 2018, 11:40 PM
Parshat Pinchas: The powerful of the jealousy of goodness
“Pinchas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was very jealous for My sake among them so that I consumed not the children...
Allan T. Marks
Jun 30, 2018, 12:51 AM
Empathy must conquer fear
No battles are as fierce as the ones fought between brothers. I speak not of the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, but of the rifts between right and left in Israel, and between Israeli and Diaspora Jews. Outsiders seldom...
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