Tzvi Fishman, at The Blogs

Jul 26, 2020, 11:48 AM

On Tisha B’Av, we mourn over the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple, over the destruction of Jerusalem, and over being exiled from our Land. Unfortunately, because of the great length and darkness of the exile, there...

Jul 21, 2020, 3:44 PM

Rashi Was a Zionist

Today is the yahrzeit of the great Torah commentator, Rashi. Almost everyone is familiar with the famous first Rashi on the Torah. He asks – since the Torah is the Book of Law which Hashem gave to the Jewish...

Jul 14, 2020, 3:05 PM

Mass Aliyah – What Really Needs to be Done

It is no secret that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs something dramatic to pull himself out of the quicksand into which he has plummeted with the worsening health situation in Israel. Movie theaters are closed, but everyone in the...

Jul 5, 2020, 12:53 PM

Israel, Bibi, Wake Up!

Sorry to be the party pooper. I know it isn’t politically correct to talk about God. But what can I do? I’m a baal tshuva, which in Hebrew means a person who has returned to serving God. To me...

Jun 25, 2020, 1:25 PM

Aliyah Pill

Every week we hear about an Orthodox Jew who was beaten up in Brooklyn, or about a Rabbi beaten up in Belgium, Paris, or Berlin. Almost as frequently, we read that a Jewish cemetery was desecrated in Europe, or...

Jun 10, 2020, 11:36 AM

Wilderness Jewish Journals

One of the factors contributing to the never-ending Diaspora Epidemic and the lingering Plague of Darkness which prevents Jews from moving to Israel is the LOCAL JEWISH NEWSPAPER. Whether they call themselves the Tennessee Jewish Tabloid, the Savanah Jewish...

Jun 3, 2020, 12:18 PM

A Tale of Freedom

The riots throughout the United States and in cities around the world, protesting the killing of George Floyd, trigger recollections of the sometimes violent freedom protests during the Civil Rights Movement in America in the Fifties and Sixties. But...

Jun 1, 2020, 7:59 AM

‘On Corona Wings’

A Parable of the Diaspora (This short story is a revamped Corona version of the story “On Eagle’s Wings” which I wrote 2 decades ago, and which appears in my book of short stories “Days of Mashiach” available at Amazon...

May 31, 2020, 8:45 AM

World of Masks

While it was comforting to return to prayer services in our local Jerusalem synagogue for the holiday of Shavuot and Shabbat, and not have to pray at home, where shul-goers have been quarantined for the past few months, I...

May 28, 2020, 1:50 PM

All Jews are religious

Just as I cannot fathom why a Jew would choose to live in a Gentile country, and raise his children in a Gentile culture, and even bed down with a Gentile partner, I cannot fathom how a Jew can...

About Me

Before making Aliyah in 1984, Tzvi Fishman taught Creative Writing at the NYU School of the Arts. He has published nearly twenty novels and books on a wide range of Jewish themes, available at Amazon Books and the tzvifishmanbooks.com website. He is the recipient of the Israel Ministry of Education Award for Creativity and Jewish Culture. Recently, he produced and directed the feature film, “Stories of Rebbe Nachman” starring Israel’s popular actor, Yehuda Barkan. Presently, he is working on Volume Four of the Tevye in the Promised Land Series.

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