The Blogs: A Country Is Not Loved by Pretending It Is Simple | Avi Finley
Yesterday there were two flags hanging outside my parents’ house in Israel: the American flag and the Israeli…
The Blogs: It’s Time For A Change: Service Year In Merhavim | Orna Raz
Returning to Merhavim on Sunday after the Shavuot holiday, we all felt that the year was drawing to…
The Blogs: Possibilities For Friendship And The Service Year | Orna Raz
Although I was born in Israel and grew up in Haifa, I did not have a close Modern…
The Blogs: Nostalgia For The Past: Independence Day | Naomi Graetz
Gemini image for independence day in style of Marie Cassatt On May 2, 1968, my parents and my…
The Blogs: Back In Merhavim Service Year And Holocaust Memorial Day | Orna Raz
This Pesach was the first time since returning to Israel from America in 1994 with a husband and…
The Blogs: A Break from Jewish History in the Holy Land | Cori Shalit
I made Aliyah from a place of ideological Zionism. In the few years before I moved to Israel,…
The Blogs: Bicentennial Time | Joseph C. Kaplan
In January 2016, just a bit over 10 years ago, I submitted an unsolicited, over-the-transom column to the…