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Dec 19, 2025, 5:53 PM

Marat Machpela - Chevron

Day 6 · Chanukah 2025 Lighting six candles tonight stands for, in my view: Abraham & SarahYitzchak & RivkaYaacov & Leah “Gabriel,” you might ask, “have you forgotten Rachel, the wife of Yaacov?” God forbid. I haven’t. And yet, at Ma’arat HaMachpela, it is...

Dec 16, 2025, 3:57 PM

Education and empathy: our strongest weapons

I try to imagine what the mother of a homicidal boy, the wife of a gunman, must be thinking to herself right now. What she must be thinking when the whole world, at least, the world as I know...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Nov 29, 2025, 10:59 PM

Where is Migdal Eder?

After Yaakov buries Rachel on the way to Efrat-Bethlehem, he and his family continue on to his father Yitzchak’s home in Mamre-Kiriat Arba-Hevron. On the way (Breisheet 35:21) we read: Israel (Yaakov) journeyed on and he pitched his tent beyond Migdal...

Nov 12, 2025, 6:20 AM

Hebron, Sovereignty, and the Divine Reset

This Week’s Parsha Debunks the Lie “And Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver... four hundred shekels of silver, accepted by merchants. So the field of Ephron in Machpelah... and the cave within it were established to Abraham as a...

Oct 26, 2025, 4:20 PM

Everyone has a special place, and mine is Hebron. It is where I have spent the last approximately 50 years of my life, which represents a big chunk of my 78 years. Hebron is, first of all, the Cave of...

Robert Lichtman

Oct 23, 2025, 3:48 AM

ONCE UPON TODAY

Burial Cave of The Patriarchs and Matriarchs, Chevron, Israel.

Once upon a time, every morning, energy radiating from the sun powered the brilliance of the heavens; the photons beamed their way to Hevron and bounced off of its holy stones into the eyes of a watchman on Yerushalayim’s...

Oct 10, 2025, 11:39 PM

Beyond Gaza: Africa’s Silent Crises

By Dr. Shmuel Legesse reported by Jonathan Takele While global attention converges on Israel and Gaza, two deeply destructive conflicts in Africa continue largely out of view. In Ethiopia, the war once centered in Tigray has shifted into Amhara and...

Sep 16, 2025, 5:42 PM

Warning: Not for political junkies

Ancient Hebron has been on my mind lately. It's not just because it's been in the news as a potentially key breakthrough to new ways of thinking about achieving peace in the Middle East. I do not digress, though, as...

Sep 15, 2025, 9:14 PM

A visit to King David’s first capital: Hebron

Michal and I again ventured into Judea and Samaria, this time to visit the Jewish heritage site dating all the way back to Abraham’s entrance to the Land of Israel: the Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs (Machpelah) in...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Aug 24, 2025, 5:11 PM

Judges and officers in your gates

Parshat Shoftim (Dvarim 16:18) opens with the following words: Judges and officers shall you appoint in all of your gates- which HaShem your God gives you- for your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. In Biblical days,...

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