Only The Left Can!
Thank G-d Netanyahu is not the prime minister. We live in a strange environment, where the Left can make war and the Right can make peace.
A Package From Home
I am not sure if many readers understand the severity of a young soldier's life during periods of conflict.
The Sanhedrin Reestablished (Part III)
The new Sanhedrin first met in Tiberius because it was foretold that it would be renewed there and would be relocated to Jerusalem.
The Sanhedrin Reestablished (Part II)
Part I of this article discussed the background and early days of the new Sanhedrin.
The Sanhedrin Reestablished (Part II)
Part I of this article discussed the background and early days of the new Sanhedrin.
The Sanhedrin Reestablished (Part I)
I recently had the pleasure of sitting in on a meeting of the "Lishka" of the renewed Sanhedrin in Israel.
A Rude Awakening
Last week Israel remembered the Holocaust but received a rude reminder that its immigration policy admits many non-Jews into Israel.
True Role Models (Part Nineteen)
Renana and Jay (Yaakov) Wolff made Aliyah in 1993 from Oak Park, Michigan, where they were serving as the Bnei Akiva internal emissaries (young couples who, prior to leaving to live in Israel, serve in towns that do not have a large Jewish college presence).
True Role Models (Part Eighteen)
Myrna Frankel was born and raised in New York City which, she feels, is such a fantastic place to live that she would still be there if Israel had not been beckoning to her all the days of her life.
True Role Models (Part Seventeen)
Many Israelis are dreading the march of time as the days of "disengagement" approach.
True Role Models (Part Sixteen)
Mordechai and Barbara Goldman came on Aliyah in 1975 from Toronto, Canada. Barbara grew up in Toronto and was active in Bnei Akiva (madricha and rosh snif) and NCSY.
True Role Models (Part Fifteen)
As Israelis suffer the stress of disengagement and the beginning of the dismemberment of the Jewish homeland, it is still important for American religious Jewish families to come on Aliyah.
True Role Models (Part Fourteen)
Unfortunately, the question as to where to raise your children and where you and they should live is not a hot topic in the American Jewish community.
True Role Models (Part Thirteen)
I once thought that my study of logic would prepare me to understand how the world behaves. Living in Israel these past months has cured me of this assumption.
True Role Models (Part Twelve)
Purim, which is not too far away, reminds us that people often can wear masks to hide their true identity.
True Role Models (Part Eleven)
The entire world is in turmoil and yet people ask, "When will peace come to Israel?"
True Role Models (Part Ten)
It is often hard to understand the attitude of American Orthodox Jews to Israel.
True Role Models (Part Nine)
Few countries in the world have the concern for its citizens that Israel has.
True Role Models (Part Eight)
Israel is center of the universe. What scientific evidence is there of this fact?
True Role Models (Part Seven)
One of the unexpected dividends of our coming on aliya 20 and 30 years ago is the practically 0% rate of intermarriage of our grandchildren.
