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Dec 14, 2021, 10:42 AM

Minister Liberman, you don’t want us to retrain

A woman reads a newspaper while floating in the Dead Sea, May 20, 2017. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

We're the ones who dispel visitors' 'apartheid' claims by showing them real Israelis - like hijab-clad women studying with kippa-clad men, in a college cafeteria

May 16, 2018, 1:39 PM

The Imagery Is Real

Before you continue reading, please close your eyes for a minute. Let your shoulders drop. Take a few slow, deep breaths. Uncurl your toes. Relax. Let your body go limp. Now imagine a beautiful place; an agricultural village where...

Apr 17, 2016, 5:55 PM

The Good Land: Dear Rebecca*

Dear Rebecca, You are named after a woman who would only be 87 today. Less than a century between you, but it’s hard to believe you were born into the same world. In many ways you weren’t. For your great grandmother,...

Mar 23, 2016, 4:19 PM

The Good Land – We Should All be Queen Esther

Tonight begins the Jewish holiday of Purim. The story is a serious one. A decree went through the 127 provinces of the Persian empire of King Achashverosh sentencing the Jewish people to death. While we now celebrate our miraculous...

Mar 10, 2016, 4:35 PM

Israel is an apartheid state. Arabs cannot be served in public restaurants. Israelis are racist. Israel is not tolerant of secular Jews. If you’re anything but an Orthodox, praying-three-times-a-day Jew, Israel won’t tolerate you. Israel is a bully to...

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About Me

Onnie Schiffmiller is a tour guide and the owner of Israel with Love. She made aliyah with her family from New York in 2003.