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Aug 23, 2026, 10:54 PM

B’Yachad has done its homework on fixing our schools

MK Moshe Turpaz alongside former Prime Minister Yair Lapid at a Supreme Court hearing on the illegal transfer of 1 billion NIS to unregulated ultra-Orthodox educational institutions (credit: MK Turpaz's office)

It may be cliché to say that education is a cornerstone of Israel’s economy and security and the keystone for our future. But what makes any cliché a cliché is that it’s true. The fundamental problem with education in...

Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Aug 20, 2026, 9:00 PM

A Beast Would Mourn Longer: ‘My Child! My Child!’

"A little month... O God! A beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourned longer." - Hamlet, I.2, William Shakespeare (1601) Every parent's worst nightmare is losing their child. Whether due to illness, drugs, suicide, crime, war or terrorism,...

Aug 20, 2026, 8:47 PM

The Digital Front Door Helps Support a New Generation of Children Where They Are

If child protection is to remain relevant and effective, it must reinvent itself. Today, 85% of ELI’s intake arrives online rather than through traditional phone lines.

We live in an era where the primary gateway to a child’s world is no longer a knock on the front door, or even a ringing telephone. It is a screen. For older generations, picking up the phone to...

Aryeh Eisenberg

Aug 19, 2026, 6:19 PM

Celebrating our 18th Aliyahversary!

18 years and counting....

Eighteen years ago, my wife, our two young children, and I left our home in Highland Park, New Jersey, and headed to JFK for a one-way flight to our new home in Israel. At the time, aliyah was still, in...

Aug 12, 2026, 10:22 PM

Building on Shifting Sand: Raising Kids in Israel

I was raised in a quiet suburb in Westchester county outside New York City, where life unfolded among single-family homes and an unspoken script about how things were supposed to go. In high school, we often heard about the...

Aug 7, 2026, 6:03 PM

Lebanon’s Summer Camps

When Summer Camp Teaches War: Lebanon Cannot Build Peace by Preparing Children for the Next Conflict By Imran Igra A warning from history about youth militarization, armed movements and the future Lebanon’s children deserve Every summer, parents send children to camp hoping...

Aug 7, 2026, 6:59 AM

Praise for “Hallie’s Big Heart” an inspiring children’s book by Beth Phillips

My dear friend Beth Phillips who is very active in the NYC Jewish community recently wrote a thoughtful and meaningful children's book entitled “Hallie’s Big Heart.” She wrote the book because, like so many people in our Jewish community...

James Finney-Conlon

Aug 5, 2026, 4:30 AM

Facing antisemitism from my childhood: The cost of a penny

Caption: Pennies beside my feet.
Credit: AI Generated, edited by James Finney-Conlon

When I was twelve and desperately wanted to fit in, I went along with my friends’ penny throwing gag at a suburban shopping mall. “Bet you can’t resist, Jew.” Clank, clank, clank. The pennies smacked the tile floor beside my feet,...

Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Jul 29, 2026, 6:55 AM

Explaining Color to the Blind: Love to the Unloved

"Love comes from blindness," Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules, Comte de Bussy-Rabutin (1665) It's impossible to describe a color to someone born blind. At best we can make associations (e.g., Blue is like a cool mountain-stream.) More tragically, infants deprived of visual-stimulation while...

Sofia Afonso Ferreira

Jul 28, 2026, 12:20 AM

From a Soccer Field to a Symbol of Hope: Majdal Shams Two Years On

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Exactly two years ago, on 27 July 2024, a rocket fired by Hezbollah struck a children’s soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in northern Israel, killing 12 children and teenagers. One of them was 11-year-old Alma...

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