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May 27, 2025, 12:24 AM

Summer Camp Paper Memories: The Letters Sent and Received

Photo courtesy of Camp Young Judaea Midwest.

Shortly before I left for Young Judaea’s Year Course in Israel, a “gap year” program between high school and college, my father told me not to phone home. This was September 1973 (the year is important). I can’t recall exactly...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

May 23, 2025, 7:02 AM

Humiliation or Humility

Another Israeli Independence Day has come and gone, but not with the same gusto as usual, given the ongoing hostilities in Gaza. Indeed, after 77 years of independence, one can be forgiven for bringing up the perennially painful question:...

May 20, 2025, 5:34 PM

Jerusalem: City of Peace or of Provocation Protest? The Flag March is Coming

Pennant from 1970 celebrating Israel's 22nd Independence Day. From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

Jerusalem was united on June 7, 1967 during the Six Day War. From 1948 until that day, Jerusalem was a divided city with the Old City and other eastern portions under Jordanian control. During this time, half of the Old...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Apr 18, 2025, 9:19 AM

Why are Israelis happy? A Hebrew lesson in Zionism

Volunteers from the Lev Ehad NGO raise funds, food, clothing, and more for the thousands of families of evacuees and reserve soldiers stationed in the Golan Heights, in Znobar Compound near Kidmat Zvi on October 15, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

I learned the secret to Israeli well-being from two seemingly random strangers after I first arrived in Israel

Elchanan Poupko

Feb 4, 2025, 5:21 AM

Let Gaza Counterfit a Victory

In the hours after a ceasefire was announced, the streets of Gaza erupted with celebration, with thousands of Hamas phones and cameras showing them parading whatever cars were left in Gaza, many hands holding up V signs and declarations...

Andy Blumenthal

Jan 19, 2025, 6:31 AM

Hostages Will Return, but the War Endures

As the IDF prepares for a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza, our hearts are filled with both hope and trepidation. We pray fervently for the safe return of every hostage, yet we cannot delude ourselves: while this particular battle...

Christian Rudolf Hamann

Jan 17, 2025, 12:34 AM

The UN’s Guilt for Terrorism

Historical background - Mandate period Since its existence, the UN has passed more resolutions against Israel than against all other countries combined. These demonstrably violate its own charter as well as the principles of rational logic and fairness.1) But this...

Stanley M. Rosenblatt

Jan 7, 2025, 3:15 AM

Has America Been a Good Ally of Is? PART 1

Has America been a good ally of Israel? Nearly 100% of American Jews would answer that question with a strong - YES. A majority of Israelis would give the same answer. They would be wrong! All one would have to do...

Nov 23, 2024, 12:00 AM

Jewish History: 18 Key Battles (Part 3/3: Modern)

The Israeli War of Independence (1947–1949)—the war that never really ended. Wikimedia Commons.

The Modern Era The Israeli War of Independence (1947–1949 CE) – After 1,813 years in exile, the Jewish people would have to struggle to reconstitute a polity in its ancestral homeland. For 30 years (1917–1947) the British had controlled the...

Ilana K. Levinsky

Nov 13, 2024, 12:47 AM

The Heart Mender’s Last Breath

Death—it’s a word we skim over, a concept we try to ignore. We hear about it on the news, feel a pang of sorrow when it touches someone close to us, but nothing truly prepares us for the intimate,...

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