A majority of Jews continue to support US President Obama, but the numbers have declined 17% since the last election, while community support for a more forceful stance on Iran has increased. This...
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A Celebration Needed More Than Ever: The Force Behind LA’s Celebrate Israel Festival
Los Angeles is home to more Israelis than many Israeli cities. And yet, last year the Israeli Festival was cancelled after falling on financial ruin, and a lack of general community support. It...
Yom Hazikaron – ×™×•× ×”×–×™×›×¨×•×Ÿ Remembrance Day, Jerusalem 2012
Last night marked the begining of Israel’s Memorial Day, in which the nation commemorates all those who fell defending the country as well as the civilian victims of terrorism. There were a...
A Failure to Communicate
By Hannah Brown The most commonly used euphemism for autism in Hebrew is “bayat tikshoret†– communication problem. As the mother of an autistic teenage boy living in Israel, I like this term...
Holocaust Memorial Day 2012
Today at 10 am Israel time, sirens sounded across Israel, and pedestrian and vehicular traffic came to a standstill in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and in honor of those that resisted the...
Tiyul B’Aretz: Study Abroad Where Israel Is Your Classroom
Tiyul B’Aretz is a new way of engaging Israel outside the current institutional avenues. If only this program was around when I was in college! Tiyul B’Aretz is run by Tamar Field-Gersh...
A Poem for Gunter Grass: The Tin Ear
As Gunter Grass, Nobel Prize winning German author of The Tin Drum has published a poem, I thought this was an auspicious moment for me to test my poem-writing chops… The Tin Ear There is a man...
The Tin Bum: Did Gunter Gross Write a Pre Passover Blood Libel?
Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, and artist – best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum – has written a poem in the SudDeutsche Zeitung today, which tells...