Israel
Walking Jerusalem’s History
Pin It Living in Israel is a special gift for many reasons. The beauty, the flora, the fauna, the people, but most of all, the history. You feel it with... Read More »
Making a Difference on Yom Ha’atzmaut
Pin It In Israel, you get used to seeing IDF soldiers everywhere: walking the streets, on patrols, at the Machsom (road checkpoint). They are always on duty, ready to help.... Read More »
The Gilboa Iris Blooms for Readers
Pin It I first met Zahava D. Englard in the bank. My sister-in-law, Miriam, introduced her as “This is Zahava, she just got her first book published.” I was immediately interested. After... Read More »
A.B. Yehoshua: American Jews Are Only Partial Jews
Pin It A.B. Yehoshua is not a stupid man, despite recent evidence to the contrary. The famous Israeli author and Israel Prize laureate remarked at a lecture last week that... Read More »
Questions for the Jewish Future
Pin It Though reports of the demise of America are greatly exaggerated the world is still at a crossroads. We are living in the age of democratization of the nuclear... Read More »
A Republican Jew on Progressive Jews, Israel, and the American Jewish Community
Pin It As a Republican Jew I often find myself in the minority. As someone who is deeply involved in Jewish life this happens quite often. Yet when it comes... Read More »
The Small Voice Of Moderation in Bet Shemesh
Pin It In The Year Of The Protester, we used the hashtag and we mimed the slogan to great effect.  But real change takes more than a slogan.  It takes dialog.  It... Read More »
An Obituary for Zionism
Pin It Zionism, born in the 1890′s, died today of natural causes. Zionism, which in its early years began a life long career championing self-determination and civil rights ended life... Read More »
Non-Orthodox Rabbis and Israel
Pin It I just read an absolutely shocking statistic: 12 percent of the Jewish Theological Seminary rabbinical students are “uncomfortable” with Israel’s being a “Jewish state”! One would have thought... Read More »
A Kardashian Peace in Israel
Pin It At Jewneric we can all enjoy and respect a good joke. In that light, I present Israel’s Peace Partners as measured in Kardashians. Bryan Forbes posted this neat... Read More »
Playing to the Home Crowd: Netanyahu, Abbas, and Obama at the UN
Pin It I am not much of a sports fan, but I do know that a team that can only win at home will never be a champion. Unfortunately, it... Read More »
Video Travel Diary: A Road Trip Across Israel
Pin It Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg of The Atlantic captures the essence of this fast-paced emotional travel diary of Israel, “This IsReal”.  In her subsequent interview of the director, Filmmaker Matthew Brown brings... Read More »
Free Gilad, Finally
Pin It For 1935 days, Noam and Aviva Shalit have lived in a state of uncertainty, fighting for their son who languished in Hamas captivity. For 1935 days, the government... Read More »
Taking Back Zionism
Pin It Over the last few weeks, various members of the global community have renewed their efforts to delegitimize Israel and call into question the legitimacy of Zionism as a... Read More »
Rabbi and Former MK Chanan Porat Passes Away at 67
Pin It Rabbi Porat was born in 1943, in Kfar Pines, before the establishment of the state. In his youth, he studied at the Kerem B’Yavne and Merkaz Harav yeshivas.... Read More »
What’s Wrong with the Middle East?
Pin It We are constantly being told that the major problem of the Middle East is the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. For those of us who follow this... Read More »
The Rise and Fall of Israel on American College Campuses
Pin It The rise and fall of Israel on campus and the battle for Israel’s good in the media are a symptom of a disease, not the disease itself. The... Read More »
Feeling Safe, Surrounded by Hate
Pin It “Let us be honest with ourselves: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel’s citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their... Read More »
Palestinian Refugees Not Palestinian Enough?
Pin It In a shocking move, PLO Ambassador to Lebanon Abdullah Abdullah announced in the Lebanese Daily Star last week that Palestinian refugees shall not be offered citizenship in the... Read More »
Thriving on Turmoil, a TEDxTelAviv production
Pin It Israel is now officially 62 years old. While the Israeli banks were extremely prepared for the economic turmoil America caused and while Israeli start-ups continue to become... Read More »
