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This Wednesday night, a few minutes before sunset, Zahava and I will put the kids into the car and drive twenty minutes east into the Judean Desert. Our destination: the ruins...

The news that I, along with Rabbi Avi Weiss (Rav Avi), would be embarking to the North of Israel on a mission of solidarity and unity was met by many friends...

This is a different kind of war, and an old kind of war. In the last war, when they blew up buses and restaurants and sidewalks and cafes, Israelis were enraged,...

In Jerusalem, we barely feel the war. All right, the price of vegetables is almost double of what it was a week ago, but other than that, everything appears normal, at...

One of the more troubling aspects of warfare in the 21st century is that one rarely finds the well-defined battle lines or moral clarity such as existed in early 20th century...

My love affair with letters (reading them, that is) began in 1965 with the epistolary novel Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster, a charming 1912 saga about an orphan and her one-way correspondence...

My husband walks in this afternoon to find me sitting on the couch, eyes staring straight at the cheerless wall opposite me, burnished with tears. “What’s wrong?” he asks. Concern, but...

Early in the fall, I visited a high school in Sha’ar HaNegev, not far from Sderot and the Gaza border, to interview some students. A while into the conversation, I asked...

Is this Mine? Racheli S. is the daughter of a friend of mine. She told this story to her mother, who told it to me. Only in Israel…. Racheli was sitting...

“It could only happen in Eretz Yisroel,” declared Blimi, her dark eyes gleaming. Our shabbos guest, Blimi Wechsler, was enthusiastically describing the trip she and her friends had taken after Chanukah....