Tag: Israel

  Aton M. Holzer The fifteenth of Av – among the most minor of minor festivals on the Jewish calendar – is marked in the diaspora...

As the war in Israel approaches its third year, Zach Truboff calls upon Israeli society and its friends abroad to confront the spiritual and moral cost of the violence.

The Yemenite Children Affair is among the most persistent myths in Israeli society. Ben Rothke reviews a recent book examining the evidence, or lack thereof, for the affair, as well as what its persistence means for community relations in contemporary Israel.

In this poem, David Karpel imagines the expansiveness of God's promise about the land of Israel

Ethan Zadoff discusses what Israel education should look like post-October 7.

Drawing upon Jewish history and human anatomy, Shmuel Chaim Naiman demonstrates how the Land of Israel serves as a collective body for the collective Jewish soul.

In this poem, Yehudit Sarah Waller describes the struggle to maintain routine amid upheaval.

In this short story, Reyzl Grace imagines a woman willing to drive to the end of the world to reach her dreams.

Alan Jotkowitz reviews a newly-published volume of the Rav's writings on Zionism, and unpacks what they can mean for the Jewish State and Diaspora communities today.

Hillel Rapp explores how Israel education has changed in a post-Oct. 7 world.