The Blogs: Father’s Day without a father: Lessons from children of Israel’s fallen heroes | Shlomi Nahumson
This Father’s Day, millions of dads will receive a phone call. Some will be handed a homemade card…
The Blogs: The age of Western insanity: why Israel’s armed forces are now the West’s second | Dan Zamansky
Israel is a tiny country, with a population which is a small fraction of the rest of the…
The Blogs: Those Left Behind | Romi Sussman
Last week, we went to Har Herzl, Israel’s national military cemetery, to pay our respect to those who…
The Blogs: Relieved. Not. North. | Harriet Gimpel
On Wednesday evening, when Israel’s 78th Independence Day came to a close, the relief felt like a metabolic…
The Blogs: Our Soldiers’ Sacrifice and Bibi’s Sacrilege | Paul Mirbach
(Or, it has been three days since Yom Hazikaron, and I am still seething). In the space of…
The Blogs: Strawberries and memories: A family trip south to mourn and celebrate | Miriam Haber
Our son, Dr. Zechariah Haber z”l, a devoted husband and father, talented agricultural scientist and talmid chacham (Torah…
The Blogs: From One College Campus — Todah Rabah Shlichim | Matt Vogel
Last night at our UVM Hillel’s Yom HaZikaron dinner I deeply felt the impact of the Jewish Agency…
The Blogs: Two Days | Harriet Gimpel
Life happens on two tracks for every individual who has lost a loved one to war and terrorism…
The Blogs: A Tale of Three Ceremonies | Yehuda Halper
Though famous for their informal dress and way of speech, Israelis are enamored of formal ceremonies. Independence Day…
The Blogs: The Sky is So Full today. Yom HaZikaron | Mira Neshama Weil
Today is Yom HaZikaron, the “Day of Remembrance.” Each year in Israel, on the eve of Yom HaAtzmaut—the…
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: Defiantly Alive | Ben Lazarus
On Mourning, Dancing, and the Jewish Refusal to Choose Between Them Many have written about us. Twain. Churchill.…