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Jul 16, 2018, 4:25 PM

Birthright and the Intellectual Dishonesty of the Anti-Israel Camp

For 18 years, Birthright has been offering free trips to Israel for Jewish youth. With over 650,000 alumni and counting, co-founders Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt are directly responsible for a significant rise in Jewish identity among younger generations....

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Jul 16, 2018, 11:29 AM

Dvarim: the judge behind the judge

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of discernment. -Niccolo Machiavelli The fifth and final book of the Five Books of Moses, Deuteronomy, is in essence a long,...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jul 15, 2018, 11:30 PM

Happy Tisha beAv!

We are in the days leading up to the most somber in the Jewish calendar. A wise young person in my synagogue told me: Now we are in the bad days. I told him: No, there are no bad days....

Assaf Luxembourg

Jul 15, 2018, 8:17 PM

Biblepreneur: Unseized Opportunity?

Throughout my professional journey in the past decade, moving from non-profits to Government, to private sector, from working with start-ups and entrepreneurs to large corporations, then back to “start-up land”, and above all – building my own business —...

Uri Pilichowski

Jul 15, 2018, 7:41 PM

Breaking My Silence: I Love Hebron

They say you never really appreciate what you have until someone tries taking it away from you. No phrase more aptly describes my changing attitude towards Hebron. Since my first trip to Hebron as an 11 year old in...

Jul 15, 2018, 2:19 PM

Discovering Diamonds in the Start-up Nation

Acres of Diamonds There is a famous story called “Acres of Diamonds,” about a man in an African village who was visited by a traveller who told him of rumors that diamonds had been found across the river. This man...

Jul 15, 2018, 10:38 AM

If hills could speak

If you could see what I have seen…. I watched the great empires of Sumer and Akkad bestow upon the world the gifts of writing and literature and mythology and civil society I watched a group of nomads penetrate the impenetrable and struggle to maintain a distinct identity in...

Ariel Ben Avraham

Jul 15, 2018, 5:56 AM

Parshat Devarim: Goodness, the Promised Land (II)

“And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and brought us back word and said, ‘Good is the land which the Lord our God has given to us’. Yet...

Jul 14, 2018, 6:48 AM

Could Israel’s Startup Nation be the key for peace with the Palestinian people?

I’m always hesitant when it comes to holding an event at a Chabad House. I don’t know if it’s the fear of the need to conform to the orthodox nature of the place, or just the hit or miss possibility...

Jul 13, 2018, 6:01 PM

It’s (not) coming home

I only discovered that Croatia has a soccer team when my son drew them as his "team" in our school's soccer draw. "Bad mazal," I thought, "They'll never make it past the first round". Shows how much I know about...

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