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Menachem Elyah Paull

Oct 25, 2026, 12:51 PM

My Jewish papers, please

My parents did not believe in certificates. They believed in brisket

Oct 24, 2026, 4:11 PM

Aliyah in the Age of AI

The decision to make Aliyah is a deeply personal matter, and one that many Jews in the Diaspora fear. I know this because, since October 7, 2023, I have seen firsthand how quickly the disease of Jew-hatred can spread. Since...

Oct 24, 2026, 9:25 AM

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk

Another Inconvenient Truth About Israel Fate. Belonging. Principles. Justice. Admiration. Love. These are the foundations of my relationships with people, but even more importantly, they are the reasons I have devoted decades of my life, unconditionally, to Israel. I am a highly...

Michael J. Lawrence

Oct 23, 2026, 2:26 PM

The Impact of Aliyah, Then Like Now

My great-great-grandparents Yehoshua and Esther Zabludovsky made Aliyah from Zabludow (now in Poland) to Jerusalem in 1889. My great-grandfather Yosef Kaluzna came from Zhmerynka (now Ukraine) via Manchester, England in 1913 and settled in the Galilee. There, Yosef met Mina Zabludovsky...

Oct 22, 2026, 10:31 PM

Mental Health in the Parsha – Parshat Lech Lecha – Leaving Everything You Know

This is Shabbat Aliyah, and what is happening right now is genuinely something to behold. People are packing up entire lives and moving to Israel in numbers that are hard to wrap your head around. Families, singles, retirees, kids....

Oct 22, 2026, 10:11 PM

Treasure Trove: On the Upcoming Elections- The Hora, The Hora

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

In the 2002 comedy film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the character Gus Portokalos says "Give me a word, any word, and I'll show you that the root of that word is Greek.” Let’s try it with the dance that...

Oct 22, 2026, 3:38 PM

Israel’s unsold homes: Where buyers have the edge

New apartment towers going up in Israel (illustrative, AI-generated image)

Israel's housing market has more new apartments sitting unsold than at any point on record. At the end of July, about 85,000 new units were still on the market, according to Central Bureau of Statistics figures reported by Globes. That...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Oct 21, 2026, 10:37 AM

Did Avraham Cross the ‘Green Line’?

The "Green Line" is the name that was given to the line that separated Israeli and enemy forces after the1948 War of Independence. The line was established through the 1949 armistice agreements that brought the war to an end....

Oct 21, 2026, 1:52 AM

Zionism is Judaism

Today, "Zionism" simply means believing that Israel has a right to exist as the Jewish homeland. Yet in modern political discourse, critics routinely turn the word into an insult—sometimes even comparing it to Nazism. When the rhetoric gets that...

Oct 20, 2026, 11:09 AM

Aliyah as Rebirth

There are three years engraved on David Ben-Gurion’s final resting spot in Sde Boker: The year he was born. The year he made aliyah - which he considered to be the year he was reborn. And the year he died. We often speak...

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