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Here are thirteen glimpses at Israel, glimmers of what I love about living in the only place I will ever feel truly at home– Israel. 1. As I take my morning...

I wanted to do more than just send the occasional cake for Shabbat. The email caught my eye. It described the plan for people from all over Israel to meet near...

1. Being able to speak to G-d on a local call. There is simply no place in the world, with the palpable sanctity of the Kotel, Home of G-d. 2. The...

Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret 5768 Part One: Yehoshua bin Nun and Shemini Atzeret Part Two: Iran, The Final Redemption Part One: Yehoshua bin Nun and Shemini Atzeret The Gemara in Pesachim...

End of Elul 5767 Part One: Elokim Mail Part Two: Yishmael Has a Case! Part One: Elokim Mail To the Exalted One, Creator of All Things, Rebono Shel Olam; I am...

Nitzavim Vayalech 5767 Part One: Towers Part Two: Restoring a Synagogue Part One: Towers The Gemara in Sukkah 52b says “Four things Hashem regrets having brought into the world: Galut, Kasdim...

Land of My Birth – Six years had passed since the beginning of the “First Aliyah” in the year 5642 (1882). And indeed a revolution had begun in the land, with...

A minyan of cars weaved its way through the tan and green countryside of the Judean Hills. My husband and I lagged behind because we had stopped to pick up trempistim,...

Land of My Birth – Chaim Weizmann was born in 5634 (1874) in the town of Motol in Belarus, the third son in a family of twelve children. As a child...

Being an immigrant to any new culture means having nearly limitless opportunities to humiliate oneself. The cultural and linguistic land-mines that await the newcomer to Israel are so numerous as to...