The Blogs: Grace | David Raphael
Each morning starts the same. I head down to the kitchen at 6:30 am, put a corn muffin…
The Blogs: A Country Is Not Loved by Pretending It Is Simple | Avi Finley
Yesterday there were two flags hanging outside my parents’ house in Israel: the American flag and the Israeli…
The Blogs: The Israel I Heard on a Mountaintop | Reuven H. Taff
In June 1967, a high school friend and I spent six consecutive nights driving from our homes in…
The Blogs: Michelle: Israel’s Eurovision Lament for Europe | Brendon Stewart Freedman
There was something almost unbearably poignant about this year’s Israeli Eurovision entry. On the surface, Michelle appeared to…
The Blogs: Back to the Future. Did Anything Become Better? | Sabine Sterk
Back to the Future. Did Anything Become Better? Today it is April 30th, 1978. My father opened the…
The Blogs: Israel at 78: The Future It Must Build | Andy Blumenthal
This week, Israel marked its 78th Independence Day. For me, it was not an abstract commemoration—it was something…
The Blogs: A Preschool Lockdown in My Hometown, A Bomb Shelter in My Home | Yael de Toledo
I had been sitting in a bomb shelter in Israel holding my toddler when the messages began arriving:…
The Blogs: Hiking Israel: The Journey of the Queens of the Trail | Michelle Stravitz
I just returned from Eretz Yisrael and Year 9 of an annual women’s hike on Shvil Yisrael. (And…