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Jun 20, 2026, 11:00 PM

Treasure Trove: Achooza, the Great Estate of New York (Yes, Jews Bought Land!)

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

In a synagogue presentation I did about Herzl a number of years ago, I mentioned the various organizations that purchased land in the Land of Israel in anticipation of the future Jewish state. Someone in the audience with a...

Jun 18, 2026, 10:14 PM

From Miriam’s Well to Resilient Zionism: Financing Israel’s Next Stage

Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Settlements Minister Orit Strock review development plans during a recent strategic tour of the Negev region.

This week in Israel, we read Parshat Chukat, which records Miriam’s death in a single, almost understated verse: “Miriam died there and was buried there.” Immediately afterward, the Torah tells us that the people had no water. The Midrash...

Jun 17, 2026, 5:22 AM

The Day I Made Mother Teresa Laugh

It was before the time when everyone carried a mobile phone with a digital camera. One person took a photograph. I never received a copy. But there are few memories more vividly embedded in my mind. Thirty-one years ago today,...

Barry Mellinger

Jun 16, 2026, 5:44 AM

Our Eternal Love

Mike Leven knows the answer. He published it in eJewish Philanthropy on June 3rd, calm and confident and almost entirely without alarm. Tamim Academy schools work. The data is unambiguous. The economics are scalable. Eighty schools for fifty million...

Jun 15, 2026, 7:12 PM

An interview with Israeli-American Fashion Icon and Mogul Elie Tahari

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I recently had the honor of interviewing a man that I admire and respect so much and that person is none other than Elie Tahari. Elie is a renowned Israeli-American fashion designer and entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar fashion...

Silas Anastacio

Jun 13, 2026, 9:56 PM

Chaverim promotes visit to Catavento Museum as an integration activity

Last weekend, members of the Chaverim organization took part in a visit to the Catavento Museum in São Paulo, in an activity with the institution’s president, Sarita Mucinic Sarue. The gathering brought together participants of different ages for a moment...

Jun 13, 2026, 12:53 AM

Treasure Trove: Keren Hayesod – From a 1922 Sacrifice Bond to Today

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

This Keren Hayesod Sacrifice Bond certificate represents more of a sacrifice than a bond. Issued in 1922, it was part of a fundraising initiative “for the upbuilding of Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people” and records a sacrifice...

Jun 11, 2026, 1:56 PM

Book review – Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner’s Theology of Meaning

The Riemann Hypothesis is the most famous and important unsolved problem in mathematics, concerning the distribution of prime numbers. Mathematician Terence Tao has explained that the main obstacle to proving the Riemann Hypothesis is not a lack of effort,...

Jun 2, 2026, 3:13 PM

An interview with Philathropist Chagit Leviev Sofiev

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This past Sunday at the Jerusalem Conference in NYC, I had the opportunity to speak with Chagit Leviev Sofiev, a remarkable woman who is on a mission to make a change for our children's future. Chagit is an Israeli-American...

May 22, 2026, 5:39 PM

Treasure Trove: The Original Selfie Machine Turns 100

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photo taken in a photo both at Montreal's Expo 67.

The original selfie machine turns 100 this year. The photo booth made its first appearance in September 1926 on Broadway in New York City. It was the invention of Anatol Josepho (1894-1980, born Josephewitz), and first called the Photomaton. Siberian born,...

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