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Israel at 70 is a cranky, adolescent country, one that is still growing, stretching, lurching along.
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Israel is brilliant, troubled — and in dire need of a shared destiny

Maggid Jhos Singer by Maggid Jhos Singer April 9, 2018April 9, 2018
Survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp arrive in Haifa in 1945, 12 years before Lili Naveh would arrive there with her mother, also a Holocaust survivor.
Posted inIsrael at 70

I was 3 when we left the sorrow of Poland to run free in Haifa

Lili Naveh by Lili Naveh April 8, 2018April 9, 2018
Young and old survivors in Dachau cheer approaching U.S. troops.
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Traveling Holocaust commemoration exhibits arrive in S.F.

by J. Staff April 8, 2018April 6, 2018
Israel independence Jerusalem Post
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Seven decades on, Israel is still a work in progress — as it should be

by J. Editorial Board April 6, 2018
From the 2007 film "Waltz With Bashir"
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10 modern Israeli films to watch on Israel’s 70th birthday

Lexi Leban by Lexi Leban April 6, 2018April 6, 2018
Ruth, the heroine of the biblical book that bears her name, was the first convert to Judaism. Poster for the 1960 film "The Story of Ruth," directed by Harry Koster and starring Peggy Wood in the title role
Posted inColumns

Our Passover story is a chance to reaffirm that we are all Jews by choice

Rabbi Corey Helfand by Rabbi Corey Helfand April 6, 2018
(Photo/Courtesy Stoneridge Creek)
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Seniors’ club seder asked Four Questions in nine languages

by J. Staff April 5, 2018April 6, 2018
Yoav Potash (top, in the 75 t-shirt) in Israel for the first time in 1979 with his brothers and cousins
Posted inIsrael at 70

How I learned all Israelis are not my father

Yoav Potash by Yoav Potash April 5, 2018June 26, 2019
Thousands of African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest in Tel Aviv, Feb. 21, 2018 (Photo/JTA-Tomer Neuberg-Flash90)
Posted inIsrael at 70

There is no moral dilemma: Let the asylum-seekers stay!

Rabbi Lee Bycel by Rabbi Lee Bycel April 5, 2018
Lilianne Kuhn (right) in Conjux, France, ca. 1942
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Now 79, she’s honoring the French family that saved her in WWII

by Rob Gloster April 5, 2018April 5, 2018

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