Yishai Friedman, at The Blogs

Yishai Friedman

Nov 5, 2023, 7:19 PM

Understanding Antisemitism on college campuses

As a combat soldier in the North, I personally am only aware of the uptick of global antisemitism and college based antisemitism from social media. There are no shortage of videos of college students ripping off flyers with pictures...

Oct 24, 2023, 8:11 AM

Home from the northern border for 24 hours

I have come home for 24 hours after two and a half weeks guarding the North. As the Jewish people, we mourn for the butchered people of Simchat Torah and us reserve soldiers strive to protect all of us...

Oct 6, 2023, 12:41 PM

My response to Rabbi Poupko and the Dizengoff minyan critics

Aside from the few disruptors, the initiative was highly productive: many locals joined us to shake our lulavs or engage in dialogue

About Me

Yishai is a GIS spatial analyst for Keren Kayamet Leyisrael, to help further Jewish land ownership and development in Israel. On the side he worked as a Madrich and Rebbe for high schoolers in Yeshivat Tichonit Givat Shmuel and for gap year students coming to Israel to learn Torah before their college degrees or drafting in the IDF in Eretz Hatzvi. Periodically on Shabbatot he works as a Shabbat Madrich for the Schuster Heritage House to help spread Shabbat and Jerusalem to Jewish youth from abroad.