Just when we’d recovered from the buzz of “Naked Archeologist” Simcha Jacobovici’s “Exodus Decoded” documentary, we turn on the news to discover James Cameron (who...
Author - Esther Kustanowitz
Jews Geekng Out at NY Comic Con
I admit it. Maybe it was all the subscriptions to Wired and Business 2.0 and other things that shocked my parents in a long-overdue rebellion. But this year, I considered something I’d never...
A Weekend of Celebrating Israel; Feasting on Learning
Two coasts, two celebrations in the shortest month of the Gregorian calendar year… New York celebrates Israel “L’lo Hefsek”; the Manhattan JCC has a whole weekend of Israel...
Student Initiative Remembers a Fallen Soldier/Friend
In summer of 2002, Yotam Gilboa traveled Israel with an amazingly diverse group of American and Israeli teens via the Nesiya Summer Program. On July 19, 2006, Yotam Gilboa was killed in the mountains...
Introspective Intermezzo: Israel, Jerusalem and Aliyah
Over the last few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about Israel–probably because I’ve been there twice in a period of seven consecutive months, which has never in my life happened...
Gift Enables birthright israel to Double Annual Number of Trips
This breaking news from the JTA: Billionaire Sheldon Adelson pledged $25 million to birthright israel. If you’re like me, you’re thinking, big deal. Didn’t he do that in December...