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Reading Amos Oz in Vancouver
By
Mike Polischuk
After growing up in the Russian-speaking immigrant bubble, how did I mend my broken bond with Israeli culture? I left
Talya Woolf
71 things to love about Israel
What made my Israeli heart a little bigger this year? Our humor, brashness, kindness, the intrinsic sense of family, and that dust that gets everywhere
Yael Shahar
The sudden, shocking, fitting leap from mourning to jubilation
It’s jarring, but don’t forget we went from the darkest period of a long, terrible exile into the sunshine of rebirth in a single generation
Yoav Ende
The not-so-promised Jewish State
Israel is not divinely guaranteed, leaving us to continually ask the question: What must we do to be worthy of this privilege?
Blog
Our Alex’s IDF service was his salvation, not his downfall
By
Steve Sasaki
The pain of losing our son while he was serving in the IDF was made worse by baseless talk of his death as a suicide
Shayna Abramson
Peace from the ground up
Enough politics — when people from both sides truly want peace, they will demand leaders who pursue peace, and replace those who do not
Naftali Moses
Too short
Kaddish. Some sad songs sung by talented high schoolers who have practiced well. A speech or two. Hatikva. And we are done.
Shayna Goldberg
Ema, should I stand still or should I run?
Whether memorializing national tragedies or fleeing Gaza rockets, our children are learning core lessons about the meaning of life in Israel
Analysis
Philip Goldwasser
How do you solve a problem like USCJ?
You start by dissolving it and setting its flagship youth org, USY, free to fend for — and rebrand — itself
Pinchas Goldschmidt
US synagogues need what Europeans have – armed guards
Liberal gun laws in the United States are part of the problem, but they can also be part of the solution
Ian G. Haworth
Vaccines, the ultra-Orthodox, and the red line of religious freedom
This is a clear case of ’my right to swing my fist ends where another’s nose begins’
Catherine Chatterley
Faked hate crimes, anti-Semitism and Linda Sarsour
Some words of optimism for those horrified by a hoax and freaked out by the visit of a controversial political activist
Benji Levy
From Oy to Joy: A call for positivity in Jewish engagement
’Your exclusive focus on Jewish victimhood really inspires me,’ said no Jewish millennial ever
Analysis
Asher Weill
The return of Avraham Sutzkever
The ’greatest Yiddish poet who ever lived’ was a Holocaust hero who, when he came to Israel, was largely ignored
Top Ops
Helen Maryles Shankman
Thanks for the iMemories
The videos of our milestones make me want to tell my younger self to stop fretting, stop cleaning, cuddle the kids, and enjoy the moment
Ittay Flescher
The Holocaust as told on Instagram: Authentic, powerful
Eva.Stories honors the intense desire to live that burns so strongly in humans when faced with adversity
Ross Singer
Rabbi Bigman: The left thinks our problems began in 1967. They’re wrong
’I think Palestinian aspirations for a state are a good thing — I think the violent means they have used are abhorrent’
Avi Jorisch
The ultimate shadow strike to safeguard Israel
Yaakov Katz writes a page-turning account of the never-before-told story of how Israel took out Syria’s nuclear reactor
Fred Maroun
Why the anti-Israel narrative is winning, and why that matters
Regardless of whose fault it is, Palestinian suffering garners sympathy and it’s in Israeli interests to keep trying for a resolution
Josh Hasten
‘Not today!’ — Modern Zionism and Game of Thrones
This mantra of ’Today, we will stay alive’ has enabled the Jewish people to survive
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