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Jun 23, 2026, 2:09 PM

I Left NYC for Tel Aviv. It Was the Best Decision I Ever Made.

Author Sophie Mendel

I left my life in New York City in search of community and belonging—in Tel Aviv, I found it. One year ago I decided to leave New York City and move to Tel Aviv. In the wake of October 7th...

Miriam Veronica Neifakh

Jun 22, 2026, 11:58 PM

The Friendship Crisis of Olim and Israelis

AI-generated illustration by the author.

I've been in Israel for four years. In these four years I've changed friend groups more times than I've changed apartments, from fellow post-Soviet olim like me, to Latin American communities, to party Tel Avivians, to a religious circle...

Jun 22, 2026, 6:42 PM

Israel from Outside and In: A Love Letter

I suppose it started with my name, my Hebrew name, Yisroel Noam, after one of my maternal great-grandfathers, Rabbi Israel Groban, z”l, and a paternal aunt, Elsie Naomi, z”l, who died as a child in a tragic fire. Noam...

Johnathan Orlianski

Jun 21, 2026, 6:53 PM

The Family Erased

My name is Johnathan Orlianski. My family name was once spelled Orliansky, before it was changed after my family arrived in Israel in the 1970s. I live in Israel. I am the great-grandson of Rabbi Zalman Orliansky, author of Machaze...

Jun 21, 2026, 8:59 AM

Even My Fridge Knows It’s Shabbat

Twenty years in, I still find myself appreciating benefits I never imagined before making Aliyah. When people discuss Aliyah, they rightly focus on the big issues. Security. Schools. Employment. Antisemitism. Cost of living. The US dollar exchange rate. Family. The...

Gabriella Jacobs

Jun 17, 2026, 12:48 PM

The real Hunger Games take place in Israeli supermarkets

Which is the best supermarket for an olah on a budget? This is a topic on which I have, through extensive and occasionally traumatic experimentation, become something of an expert. Throughout my time here I've cycled through Shufersal (online and...

Jun 16, 2026, 8:59 PM

Making Aliyah After 50: What Actually Changes

Moving to Israel after fifty is not the same as moving at twenty-five, and pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone. That's not a warning. It's an invitation to think clearly. Because aliyah after fifty, done with proper preparation, can be one...

Jun 16, 2026, 2:46 PM

The Fixer at the Edge of History

There is a particular kind of silence that descends in the seconds after a story breaks that changes everything. Not the silence of calm. The silence of people collectively holding their breath. I know that silence well now. Since October 7,...

Jun 14, 2026, 6:07 PM

Erdogan Exposed the Lie Beneath Ataturk’s Republic

Erdogan is not the deviation that ruined a clean republic. He is the loud voice of a state tradition Ankara had long sold as Western, secular and safe. Jerusalem, Athens and Brussels now face the same mistake: the belief...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Jun 14, 2026, 7:14 AM

Where and What and When is Home?

I am originally from the suburbs of Chicago, and that place will always remain beloved and, fundamentally, home to me. But as my disabilities have become more complex, the logistics of reaching and staying in my childhood home have...

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