Locusts and Lentils
Rachel just doesn’t get it. I’ve explained it again and again. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A chance to become a part of Jewish history. To not just live as a...
Mar 22, 2007
By Brian Blum
The Young Immigrants from Syria
Land of My Birth – At the end of the First World War (1918), the Zionist movement began to awaken in Damascus. The participants were Hebrew activists who had been expelled from...
Mar 22, 2007
By Zev Wallack
Parashat Vayikra: The Priestly Sacrifice
Parashat Vayikra 5767 Rabbi Elazar says in Ketubot 111a: Whoever resides in Eretz Yisrael is without sin, as the prophet says (Yeshayahu 33:24): “Let no one say that he is ill...
Mar 22, 2007
By Rabbi Nachman Kahana
Courageous Personalities
Courageous Personalities Leading and Standing Firm When you hear the shachar adom—the warning alarm that a Kassam missile is imminent, what are you supposed to do? Find the concrete structure to...
Mar 8, 2007
By Rabbi Avi Baumol
Establishing the Sanhedrin in Tzefat
Land of My Birth – The sixteenth century was the golden era of Tzefat. At the time, this city in the Galil was the home of the majority and the most...
Mar 8, 2007
By Zev Wallack
Yashar, Yashar, Yashar
Question: What is the most important thing to keep in mind if you get lost in Israel? Answer: Yashar, yashar, yashar* There’s a man in my life that I’m trying to...
Mar 2, 2007
By Joyce Schur
Sderot: A City Under Siege
Sderot is a ghost town. The streets are empty; the parks are barren; the stores are closed, and for sale signs are on some of the homes. Only ‘some’ of the...
Mar 1, 2007
By Rabbi Avi Baumol
The Rental Cello… an Israeli story
My company recently finished a long and complex project in which we had partnered with a German company. This project required several engineers and specialists from the German company to spend...
Feb 22, 2007
By David Bogner
The Defense of Tirat Tzvi
Land of My Birth – On this very date, the sixth of Adar (Adar I in that year), the great battle was held over the isolated kibbutz, Tirat Tzvi, in the...
Feb 22, 2007
By Zev Wallack
“Go Back to Brooklyn!”
I’m still not sure how the fight broke out. Eight-year-old Aviv and I were out in the courtyard in front of our apartment on Shabbat afternoon, throwing a ball around, when...
Feb 15, 2007
By Brian Blum
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