The Knesset is dissolving. Elections are coming in October. And I am standing in the Mahane Yehuda market with my kids, watching an old Kurdish vendor arrange tangerines next to a Haredi family...
Tag - Diaspora
Israelis Want to Know: What are American Jews Like?
One of the issues of concern to those in the Jewish world of late, has been the growing divide between Jews in Israel and Jews in America. There are about 6.5 million Jews in Israel and 5.3 million...
TJS 3 Prologue: The questions that drive the Jewish Story after 1948
It is time to get a new season started. This prologue introduces the idea that every story has a topography on which it unfolds. In particular, it is a framing of the season ahead questions in three...
TJS Interlude: 3 things which divide the stories of American and Israeli Jews
Everybody is talking about the relationship between American and Israeli Jewry – is the romance over? are we headed for a breakup? This relationship will be central to the Jewish Story in...
Israel, you had me at menorah.
Guest Post by Liza Schwartz Allow me to explain. After two years working at a publishing company in New York editing mostly romance novels, I joined Masa Israel‘s Career Israel internship...
Beyond Advocacy on Hartman Blog
Thoughtful piece on how to direct our energies on Israel. Engaging Israel: Beyond Advocacy By Donniel Hartman(09/03/2010) Since Operation Cast Lead and the subsequent Goldstone Report, there has been...
Partnership 2000 Video Series
I think it’s fair to say that I have always promoted the notion that a strong Jewish identity is intrinsically tied to a strong connection to the land and people of Israel. One needn’t...