The Sanhedrin Reestablished (Part I)

Posted on: May 17th, 2006

I recently had the pleasure of sitting in on a meeting of the "Lishka" of the renewed Sanhedrin in Israel.

A Rude Awakening

Posted on: May 18th, 2005

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)

Posted on: April 13th, 2005

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)

Posted on: April 6th, 2005

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)

Posted on: March 30th, 2005

Many Israelis are dreading the march of time as the days of "disengagement" approach.

True Role Models (Part Sixteen)

Posted on: March 23rd, 2005

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)

Posted on: March 16th, 2005

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)

Posted on: March 9th, 2005

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)

Posted on: March 2nd, 2005

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)

Posted on: February 23rd, 2005

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)

Posted on: February 16th, 2005

The entire world is in turmoil and yet people ask, "When will peace come to Israel?"

True Role Models (Part Ten)

Posted on: February 9th, 2005

It is often hard to understand the attitude of American Orthodox Jews to Israel.

True Role Models (Part Nine)

Posted on: February 2nd, 2005

Few countries in the world have the concern for its citizens that Israel has.

True Role Models (Part Eight)

Posted on: January 26th, 2005

Israel is center of the universe. What scientific evidence is there of this fact?

True Role Models (Part Seven)

Posted on: January 19th, 2005

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.

True Role Models (Part Six)

Posted on: January 12th, 2005

There seems to be a whole group of people who have little or no knowledge of early aliyah from America, but who insist on making ridiculous statements about us.

True Role Models (Part Five)

Posted on: January 5th, 2005

In the 1940's and 1950's, many young American Jews were brought up with the twin goals of living in Eretz Yisrael and replacing the lost Jews murdered in the Holocaust.

True Role Models (Part Four)

Posted on: December 29th, 2004

I remember my first visit to Israel in 1956. I was attending the first American Bnei Akiva Hachshara training program in Israel.

True Role Models (Part Three)

Posted on: December 22nd, 2004

It is hard for modern day visitors to Israel to imagine some of the situations that immigrants to Israel found 20 and 30 years ago.

True Role Models (Part Two)

Posted on: December 15th, 2004

Olim in those days left behind all their friends and much of their family, and, unlike today, found it expensive and difficult to be in contact with them.