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Posted inIsrael at 70

What we wrote about S.F.’s Israel celebration in 1948

by J. Staff April 18, 2018
Ceremony in the town of Zichron Yaakov to mark Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, 2017
Posted inIsrael at 70

Yom HaZikaron: ‘A time to mourn, and a time to dance’

Max Bamberger by Max Bamberger April 18, 2018April 17, 2018
Donna Rosenthal, on the job reporting in Israel
Posted inIsrael at 70

Take it from a foreign correspondent: Israelis are anything but ordinary.

Donna Rosenthal by Donna Rosenthal April 17, 2018April 19, 2018
Natan Sharansky speaking in front of the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, Feb. 6, 1987 (Photo/Tom Wachs)
Posted inIsrael at 70

I joined the Zionist revolution in Russia

john rothmann by John Rothmann April 17, 2018April 16, 2018
Peg Sandel in Jerusalem with her daughters, who are living and studying in Israel, February 2018.
Posted inIsrael at 70

Israel led me from born-again Christian to Jewish educator

Peg Sandel by Peg Sandel April 17, 2018April 17, 2018
The Rozens made aliyah from Oakland in 2011.
Posted inIsrael at 70

These ex-Bay Area families are now proud to call Israel home

Renee Ghert-Zand by Renee Ghert-Zand April 17, 2018April 17, 2018
A blindfolded Palestinian man at a protest in Jerusalem in 2010 (Photo/Flickr-libertinus CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inIsrael at 70

Held in Israeli police detention and haunted by what I saw

Sarah Anne Minkin by Sarah Anne Minkin April 17, 2018April 17, 2018
A group of Reform Jews reading Torah during a mixed prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, Nov. 16, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Noam Rivkin Fenton-Flash90)
Posted inIsrael at 70

Building a Reform movement in Israel

Yonatan Melamed by Yonatan Melamed April 16, 2018April 16, 2018
Chai Levy dances with Roger Studley after his marriage proposal on Masada during a 2006 congregational trip.
Posted inIsrael at 70

Rules of (Jewish) engagement — how I came to live my Judaism 24/7

Rabbi Chai Levy by Rabbi Chai Levy April 13, 2018
The author's kids, Charlie and Rosie Ayalon at Rosh Hanikra in Israel, 2017
Posted inIsrael at 70

Here, strangers are strangers. In Israel, they are family.

Nicole Hakimi by Nicole Hakimi April 13, 2018

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