Galilee Diary: Back to the Land
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Order Now! In Palestine we must do with our own hands all the things that make up the sum total of life. We must...
View ArticleGalilee Diary: Desert paradise
…Thus said the Lord: I accounted to your favor the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride – how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. Israel was holy to the Lord, the first...
View ArticleYom HaZikaron Moments
Haggai. I danced at his wedding in the fall of 1971. He was a proud member of the IDF Tank Corps. The wedding was at Kibbutz Na’an not far from Rehovot. My first Israeli wedding. We laughed and...
View ArticleWhat is a Zionist?
By Rabbi Stacey Blank In the midst of the modern State of Israel’s “High Holidays” – last week being Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and this Wednesday being Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) which...
View ArticlePraying for Connection
by Sophie Vener In synagogue seats around the world, Jews pray Nisim B’kol Yom, “the daily miracles.” The first line of the prayer, “Asher natan lsachvi binah lehavin bayn yom obayn lilah,” is...
View Article“What is Old Make New, What is New Make Holy”
How can one best participate in building the State of Israel? In the long history of the Jewish people, this is a very new question. The question of what is the best way to build or protect Israel has...
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