Chaim Feder

Apply for a Blog

Oct 17, 2024, 7:01 PM

Where the state-organized commemorations of October 7 go wrong

Transportation Minister Miri Regev attends ceremony marking the one-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre, at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 7, 2024. (Flash90)

When the same government that didn't protect the people on October 7, or take responsibility since, organizes memorial events, it's a slap in the face

Oct 15, 2024, 10:30 PM

In Israel, on the evening of 7 October 2024, there were two events marking 7 October 2023: a live “alternative” event organized by many of the families and organizations actively advocating the return of our captives; and a pre-recorded...

Dec 16, 2023, 6:07 PM

Ignorance and Values

Ron Hassner is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. On 5 Dec, he published the results of a poll in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. “When college students who sympathize with Palestinians...

Nov 19, 2023, 11:09 AM

Further Reckoning

Notes to My Cousin (second and final part) Zionist and Traitor The atmosphere was ugly. Many Israelis (millions!) were branded as not merely “leftists”. Were we secular or progressive Jews then we were “failed Jews” or not “Jews” at all; we...

Nov 17, 2023, 7:12 PM

Toward a Reckoning

Notes to My Cousin (first part) News as Autobiography Hi cousin! You'll recall that I moved to Israel when I was in my late twenties. One of the first things I understood when I arrived in July 1977, was that "The News"...

Sep 27, 2015, 6:19 PM

‘How are you’ thoughts

Just before the Yamim Nora’im, my brother Avraham and I had one of our ongoing, spontaneous, ‘how are you’, talks. We generally avoid certain topics. While we’re both social democrats, we’re both ‘card-carrying’ members of the Zionist family since...

Apr 6, 2015, 11:01 AM

זה בסדר – Zeh B’Seder

Our youngest grandchild (#6), Yoavi (7 weeks old), played a special role in our grandchildren's pantomimed (but still noisy!) Midrash on Yitziat Mizraim. He played Moshe Ba'teiva. His brother, Yonatan (a month shy of six and our oldest grandchild),...

Mar 27, 2015, 4:35 PM

I am one-of-Them. ‘Them’ as in “It’s either us or them”, in one of Likud’s unforgettable, and unforgivable, campaign slogans. It’s a strange identity for me. While I’m hardly ashamed of being one-of-Them - since Them, after all, include some of...

Load more

About Me

Chaim Feder is a retired educator who specialized in global Jewish-Zionist education. He came on aliyah in 1977. Chaim is married to Irith and they live in Modi'in. The two boys, Uri and Roi, their wives and five children live in Modiin; Tal and her husband and four children live in the Yishuv Har Amasa, by Ya'ar Yatir.