The Blogs: A Letter to My Daughter Marching from the Ashes of Europe to the Hope of Israel | Amir Oren
My Beloved Isabella. I am so immensely proud of you, as is your mom who articulated so many…
The Blogs: From Scapegoat to Society: Israel’s Moral Test This Yom Ha’atzmaut | Jeffrey Levine
As Israel marks another Yom Ha’atzmaut, the contrast is unavoidable. We celebrate independence while still carrying the trauma…
The Blogs: Yom Ha’Atzmaut Message – Don’t Shrug; Don’t Look Away | Asher Sacks
As we approach Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut—Israel’s Independence Day, the country’s 78th birthday—I find myself reflecting. This…
The Blogs: An affair of the heart – and an unfinished story | Solly Kaplinski
A Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut Reflection We attended a very moving and tearful IDF Widows and Orphans…
The Blogs: A Yom HaAtzmaut Parody—and a Much-Needed Conversation | David Harbater
For those who have not yet seen the video by Eli Lebowicz and Dovi Neuberger parodying two conflicting…
The Blogs: Israel Marks 78 Years of Independence | Igor Klotsman
Today is a special day — a day that means far more than just a date on the…
Zionsim is often used as a slur. We must reclaim the term.
On Israel’s Independence Day on Wednesday, as Israelis mark 78 years since the founding of our state, a…
The Blogs: Not flying the flag this Independence Day | Daniel Orenstein
This Independence Day I’m not going to fly the flag. I’m not going to gush over Israel as…
The Blogs: ‘But even so’: Memorial Day and the sacred canopy of Israeli life | Tanya White
I will say something that may make many of my Diaspora friends uncomfortable: there is a fault line…
The Blogs: Walking Warsaw Ghetto, While My Child Is in Israel | Adele Stowe-Lindner
A year ago, I planned a three-generation family journey to Poland for April 2026: my Polish-born father, my…
The Blogs: Nostalgia For The Past: Independence Day | Naomi Graetz
Gemini image for independence day in style of Marie Cassatt On May 2, 1968, my parents and my…
The Blogs: Defiantly Alive | Ben Lazarus
On Mourning, Dancing, and the Jewish Refusal to Choose Between Them Many have written about us. Twain. Churchill.…