Yom HaAtzmaut 49 articles

In Parshat Nitzavim God says that after he brings us back he will increase us and bless the land. The State of Israel is clearly a manifestation of this.

…but I will make you a light of nations, so that My salvation shall be until the end of the earth. – Isaiah 49:6 Haters gotta hate. Sadly, this dismissive shorthand...

After the murder of Sarah Litman’s father and brother days before her wedding, she chose to marry after shiva – but this time, she invited the entire nation of Israel. In...

This video from Nefesh b’Nefesh celebrates Israel Independence Day with 66 Israeli heroes sharing a powerful message! Hear their stories. Live your dreams. Am Yisrael Chai! See the names below (in...

With preparations for Israel’s 66th birthday running behind schedule, Prime Minister Netanyahu did what any good boss would do:

Every spring, a number of days of commemoration are observed. Yom HaShoah and Yom HaZikaron, established by the government of Israel, are days in which we honor the memory of the...

On April 11, 1944, a Jewish teenager hiding from the Nazis penned in her diary: “If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is...

From Vilna to Yerushalayim: No other country’s Independence Day is more powerful than Israel’s. Trivializing the day is ingratitude to God’s outpouring of kindness to His people. Parshat Hashavua from Yerushalayim presented...

The two faces of Eliyahu HaNavi: We are presented with two diametrically opposed pictures of Eliyahu HaNavi (one in Tanach and one in Chazal). How do we reconcile the two opposite...

I’ve just celebrated my 4th Yom ha-Atzmaut since making aliyah. What’s life like for a middle-aged, middle class guy from Toronto, Canada adjusting to quotidian Jerusalem, you may wonder. Good, mostly,...