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Jul 16, 2026, 3:25 PM

Is Israel a Good Place to Retire? Here’s the Honest Answer

Most articles about retiring in Israel lead with the weather and the hummus. Both are excellent, but neither pays for healthcare or figures out what happens to your pension when you cross a border. So let's skip the tourism...

Jul 16, 2026, 5:25 AM

Hubris, Humility and Hashem

So here we go again. I'm so stressed. The extensive security check at the Israeli Consulate. This time in Munich. We must explain who we are, how we're connected, and why we came. No! We didn't come with anybody,...

Jul 15, 2026, 6:23 AM

Hadassah’s Research on Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria is Lifechanging

I had my first hip replacement surgery in 1980 in America. It was a miraculous procedure that enabled me to walk normally, after walking for a year on an undiagnosed broken femur that eventually collapsed. I was even able...

Jul 10, 2026, 8:03 AM

The spiritual question around aliyah

The tribes of Gad and Reuven had large flocks. Seeing the rich grazing land east of the Jordan, in this week's Parsha, they asked Moshe for permission to settle there instead of in the Promised Land. They pledged to...

Jul 10, 2026, 8:03 AM

Fear Nothing – Love Everything

——On the Three Weeks and the Anxiety Reshaping American Jewry Over the last few months, you may have noticed a new refrain appearing in Jewish publications. Respected rabbis and prominent philanthropists have begun declaring, in earnest, that the American Jewish...

Jul 9, 2026, 8:44 PM

Matot–Masei: Is Living in Israel One of the 613 Mitzvot? Who Cares!

In a recent conversation with a rabbinic friend and colleague—a discussion that echoed many others I have had over the years—I remarked that I believe every Jew who is genuinely committed to Torah and Judaism should live in Israel. “But...

Jul 7, 2026, 1:11 PM

My First Year in Israel: How’d I get here?

July 8, 2025, my daughter and family greet me at Ben-Gurion Airport.

I’m coming up to my one-year Aliyah anniversary, and I have nothing profound to say. Sure, I’m happy here. After all, I’m among my Jewish brothers and sisters, living the Zionist dream—in Jerusalem, mind you. Kosher food everywhere. Torah...

Rebecca Liebermann Nissel

Jul 7, 2026, 12:41 AM

Aliyah and life moves on…

The silver Challah tray, framed against a backdrop of black velvet and mounted on the wall above the washing station, was what made me realize that our friends had moved their possessions to Israel to finally feel at home. Even...

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 4, 2026, 10:26 PM

The Abyss Taught Me That Connection Is Everything

This week I had one of the most frightening dreams of my life. In it, I was severed from everyone I had ever known or loved—not merely alone, but cast into an emptiness beyond light, beyond warmth, beyond relationship...

Jul 2, 2026, 10:34 PM

Why I Wrote the Apology Letter

My recent piece “An Apology from Your Jewish American Parents” in the Times of Israel attracted numerous comments and much controversy. In it, I laid out what I perceive as the failure on the part of American Jewish parents,...

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