Israel 552 articles

I felt like I was the prophet Yonah, fleeing from G-d and His will. It all started at my weekly class on tefilla, prayer. One of the women in the class...

Land of My Birth – The exiled people in Yemen never forgot Jerusalem. Throughout history, small numbers of people kept coming to Eretz Yisrael, with the goal of living in the...

Parashat Shoftim 5767 Part One: Eradicating God Part Two: Concealed and Revealed (Hidden Spaces) Part Three: I am not a Zionist Part One: Eradicating God The ritual goes like this: The...

It is daybreak and we are in a cloud. White purity lingers over the hills and fine dew settles upon the land. The grapevines and olive trees awake, slowly, immersing themselves...

On a Friday afternoon before the start of Shabbat, the smell of freshly baked rugelach will lure even the most resilient shopper into its lively corridors. Shopkeepers bellowing out last minute...

A Lesson For the Children – A large crowd filled the small “Har Tzvi” Synagogue in the Geula section of Jerusalem. The neighborhood and the population grew steadily, and many of...

Land of My Birth – Even before Naftali Imbar knew how to read and write, the young boy composed rhymes and asked his friend to write them down. As a youth,...

Parashat Ekev 5767 Part One: The Inner Soul of Israel Part Two: Rabbis’ Day Part One: The Inner Soul of Israel The Torah declares that the land of Eretz Yisrael is kadosh...

Holy and Secular – “I want to present to you the ‘disengagement’ program,” the Prime Minister said. “It is not ‘disengagement,’ it is expulsion!” was the angry reply. But in reality...

Parashat Va’etchanan and Erev Tisha B’Av 5767 I am writing this on the eighth of Av, after descending from two hours on Har Habayit – the Temple Mount, following immersing in...