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.…
The Blogs: Our Only Choice | Harold L. Katz
This week in Israel is very different beginning with last night’s Yom-Ha’zikaron-Day of Remembrance. It is a night…
The Blogs: 78 Going on 100: In the War of Information, We Are at a Loss for Words | Nathalie Cohen-Sheffer
Hasbara, from the Hebrew word “to explain.” So many of us are still racking our brains how to…
The Blogs: Between Memory and Hope | Jeffrey Levine
As we approach Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut, we pause. We remember our fallen soldiers—those who paid with…
The Blogs: This Memorial Day, let’s remember Israel’s 1948 foreign volunteers | Aron Heller
Unlike Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is focused squarely on our painful past, the country’s annual Memorial Day…
The Blogs: This Yom HaZikaron, silence will speak | Kenneth Brander
When the siren wails across the country on Yom HaZikaron – Israel’s Memorial Day — I hear it…
The Blogs: Israel at 78 – Fact and Emotion | Ben Lazarus
Israel at 78 — I must start with a declaration. I make no apology for loving this country.…
The Blogs: Mourning Israel on Yom Ha’atzmaut | Ignat Ayzenberg
Israel emerged from the disruptive shocks of modernity: mass politics, the modern state system, the world economy, social…
The Blogs: Two Year Anniversary since Iran Shot at Israel: Nation That Remembers—and Because It Does, It Endures | Kyle Blank
Two years have passed since the night the skies over Israel were streaked with fire. Two years since…