Josh Fine

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Apr 22, 2025, 1:08 PM

Our new national mourner’s kaddish

Stickers in memory of the fallen at a train station in Herzliya. Photo by the author.

My father of blessed memory died on December 3, 2024. Since then, I’ve been saying the mourner’s kaddish. I was not a stranger to Jewish prayer before my father’s passing, but I also wasn’t a consistent attendee of daily...

Oct 19, 2024, 10:42 PM

Living the Dream

There are moments in life when the second it happens you know everything will forever be different. And then there are moments that are just as life-changing, except you don’t realize their significance until years later. When my family landed...

Sep 26, 2024, 12:30 PM

The New York Times likes Iran and its proxies – um, what?

Armed Yemeni men step over a US and an Israeli flag painted on the asphalt in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa, during a march in support of the Palestinians, on February 29, 2024. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

That's the most recent reason I can't regard the paper previously of record as a serious news source

May 20, 2024, 7:26 AM

The Spirit of 76

Yom HaAtzma’ut (Independence Day) and Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) were last week, but it feels like ages ago. Such is time during war. Each day feels like an eternity as we worriedly check news from the front and continue...

May 1, 2024, 1:12 AM

Safe Spaces in Dangerous Places

Last night as I put away our Passover dishes and enjoyed some hot, freshly baked pita, I reflected on another holiday that has come and gone while our country is gripped with war. As days turn to months and...

Jan 15, 2024, 12:18 AM

One Hundred Days of Hell

Along with about 120,000 of my fellow Israelis, I gathered last night in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv to mark “one hundred days of hell,” as the posters proclaimed. A word about Kikar HaChatufim, or Hostages Square – it sprung...

Jan 1, 2024, 3:33 PM

Why This Time It’s Different

Christmas Day in Israel is a regular workday. But December 25, 2023, was far from ordinary for me. I joined a business delegation to communities adjacent to Gaza that were devastated by the massacres 80 days earlier. I didn’t...

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Josh Fine made aliyah in 2019 from Denver, Colorado, and lives in Raanana with his wife and three children. His oldest child currently serves in the IDF. A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School, Josh is an attorney at a boutique law firm he co-founded with two other olim.

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