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Oct 29, 2023, 6:09 AM

A Love Song for Zion Video from 12th Century Spain

The love connection between the Jews of the Diaspora and the Land of Israel is not something new that arose in the 20th century, or the 19th century, but goes back in History to at least the Babylonian Exile,...

Aug 9, 2023, 5:52 AM

We’re Better Than That

If you want to be discouraged about Israel, look at the politics. But if you want to be encouraged about Israel, listen to the music. The redemptive power of song! “Kattan Aleinu” (“We’re better than that”) was originally written, produced and...

Jul 10, 2023, 5:46 PM

The song that made a country

'I Have No Other Country,' a beloved anthem embraced by today's protesters, was born of Ehud Manor's personal tragedy, as his widow Ofra tells it

Jun 18, 2023, 10:24 PM

When ‘Under Your Wing’ became poetry to my ears

Arik Einstein's mournful love song brought to life words by one of the greatest poets of modern Hebrew

May 30, 2023, 11:09 AM

When the words came back to me

What Clara offered was Hebrew lessons in exchange for babysitting. But what she gave me was a place that felt like home

May 20, 2023, 1:30 PM

The song that binds me to Israel

Not giving up on the Zionist miracle means believing that Israel is a place whose wonders have yet to cease -- even now

May 14, 2023, 4:25 PM

‘Small Gifts’: About a place where Judaism is in the air

Rami Kleinstein's song welcoming Sabbath represents my Israel – that beautiful fusion of religious and secular

May 8, 2023, 3:29 PM

A soldier's love song, a country's innocence

Crooning in 1968 from the peak of newly-captured Mt Hermon, a soldier offers his love a kingdom dipped in a sea of gold

Apr 28, 2023, 3:11 AM

The most beautiful prayer I know

Yehonatan Geffen told us his song, 'It will be good,' wasn't true. But I sing it with my daughter every night.

Apr 26, 2023, 2:41 PM

Meeting, Hardly Meeting: The beauty of inaccessible love

When Hanan Yovel came to serenade my army unit, he held my attention through the exhaustion with words by Rachel the Poet

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