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June 7 is the anniversary of Israel's attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq, which inaugurated the "Begin doctrine," a position that said Israel will never allow one of its enemies to acquire a weapon of mass destruction. With Iran and t
Why was Israel created? As simple as that question sounds, the answer is not as obvious as it might seem. Refuge? Sort of, but not really. Millions of Israelis don't live day by day, year by year so that one day, if there's a need, there will b
In his newest book, A Complicated Jew: Selected Essays, the prolific, brilliant, creative and provocative essayist, Hillel Halkin, writes as follows:A few years ago, I participated in a panel discussion about Israel and the Diaspora held in Wa
Alex emigrated with her parents from Ukraine in 1991 at the age of five. She soon realized that if she wanted to fit in she was going to have to stop being "Russian," and for 20 years she erased her Soviet identity and tried to become a "real I
If you haven’t read Dara Horn’s most recent book, People Love Dead Jews, you should. It’s beyond powerful, and exceptionally beautifully written.With Purim just days away, here’s a quote from her book (page 12):Gradowksi tells us how he escor
This week, when our focus is once again on rescue, and particularly the Jewish world’s gearing up for a massive rescue, we share a conversation with Danna Harman, an Israeli journalist who, along with a few other Israelis, did extraordinary thi
Every now and then, one reads a book so stunning in its insight and creativity that it’s a disappointment to finish it, and one is tempted to read it again, right then and right there. That’s how I felt about Amotz Asa-El’s book, The Jewish Mar
AA few weeks ago, William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, wrote a very thoughtful column in which he suggested that Israel’s closing its skies to American Jews during Covid was an affront to a
To most of us today, it seems patently obvious that there was something fundamentally obscene about the United States (among other countries) participating in the Berlin Olympics of 1936. The world knew of the horrors that were beginning to unf
Sadly, we can all “see” in our minds the scene of Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border aligned against Palestinian children, who are often forced to the front by Hamas. Especially with the Amnesty International assault on Israel much in the news
David Ben-Moshe, a convert of African-American descent, made headlines recently when he began a hunger strike to bring attention to his demand that he be recognized as an Israeli citizen. He ended the protest when the Ministry of the Interior p
Micha Odenheimer is a rabbi, writer, journalist, social activist, as well as founder and director of Tevel b'Tzedek, about which we will hear in a different episode. Originally from Berkeley California, Micha made aliyah in 1989. Prior to that,
Natalie Marcus is a highly acclaimed, award-winning, screenwriter and director based in Tel Aviv. For the past 10 years, Marcus has been a writer and show runner in Israel’s highest rated, comedy, satire, and drama series. Marcus is currently w
Founded in 2001 as a coalition of Israeli organizations working in disaster relief and international development, IsraAID has grown into an independent NGO and the largest humanitarian aid organization in Israel. From earthquakes and hurricanes
If you've not heard of Rabbi Yitzchak Feivish Ginsburgh, the American-born rabbi somewhat associated with Chabad but with a unique worldview all his own, you're not alone. Outside Israel, he's not terribly well known. Inside Israel, though, he
Growing up in an ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem, Penina Feufer sensed that she wanted broader horizons. Today, she has a BA in liberal arts and two masters degrees, and is one of the prime voices behind a movement known as "the New
If this week's column, we noted that Israel's place on the world's "happiness scale" and its birthrate are testament to the sense of purpose and meaning at the heart of Israeli life. Earlier, we've looked at how music in Israel is also an expre
Not that many years ago, the plight of African asylum seekers who had made their way into Israel was a topic of national and international discussion. Since Israel hermetically sealed the border with Egypt, the flow of asylum seekers into Israe
Israel currently has two recognized systems of law operating side by side: civil and religious. Israeli religious courts possess the exclusive right to conduct and terminate marriages. There is no civil marriage or divorce in Israel, irrespecti
A few months ago, on a Shabbat afternoon, I was reading A. B. Yehoshua’s novel, The Tunnel. In the novel, Yehoshua mentions an organization called “Road to Recovery,” through which, he said, volunteers meet Palestinians who are entering Israel
If Judaism were to be refashioned for Israeli life, in a manner that brought together religious and secular, Ashkenazim and Mizrachim, young and old, and people of all political inclinations, what would it look like? Kehilat Zion, which is led
In our ongoing series of interviews highlighting extraordinary work that people in Israel are doing to make Israeli society more decent, more moral, more worthy of the devotion of our children’s generation, we highlight this week the work of th
Dr. Dalia Fadila, an Israeli-Arab woman, recently caught the attention of Forbes Magazine. Here is part of what Forbes had to say: Many people are working to improve life for the Arab citizens of Israel and advance Arab society. One of them is
Rabbi Avidan Freedman, an Orthodox rabbi and educator, raised in Canada and now living in Israel, teaches high school by day. But he has, in recent years, become active on an issue he considers to be "Israel's greatest moral stain". What is tha
Deborah Harris, the founder and CEO of Jerusalem's Deborah Harris Literary Agency, is without doubt the premier literary agent representing Israeli authors in the international marketplace. In this conversation, Deborah regales us with the stor
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