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Eliana Dunn fell in love with Israel on her Birthright trip earlier this year.

First Person

At 18 I did Birthright; at 19, made aliyah

On July 24, my 19th birthday, I will make aliyah. Whatever kind of teenager you picture when you hear that sentence, it’s probably not me. I grew up in a…
By Eliana Dunn Jul 23, 2018
Itzik Laron tells his story at Osher Marin JCC's Israel-centric Moth-style storytelling event. (Photo/Courtesy Brandeis Marin)

Israel at 70

Israel memories inspire Moth-style storytelling event at Marin JCC

“Are you an American Jew, or a Jewish American?” The teacher’s question, posed to Marty Friedman 33 years ago on a teen trip to Israel, totally threw him.…
By Liz Harris May 14, 2018
Johanna Meckel at the Dead Sea

Israel at 70

This beautiful, messy country … my Israel

Sticky arms and face from three popsicles too many. Dirty feet from running around barefoot in orange orchards. Hair wild from dipping in and out of the…
By Johanna Meckel Apr 19, 2018
Israeli tanks cross the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War (Photo/Wikimedia-Israel Defense Forces)

Israel at 70

Eyewitness to Yom Kippur War, Ethiopian aliyah and more

I became interested in Israel as a teenager. Lacking any serious knowledge or Zionist education, I remember during the Six-Day War betting an Arab…
By Rabbi Doug Kahn Apr 19, 2018
From the Israeli television series “Mary Lou”

TV & Film

‘By the time I visited Israel, I had seen 500 Israeli films.’

I was raised in a New York labor union Jewish family, and from my childhood through my teens my parents sent me to a commie Quaker camp, so I missed out…
By Lexi Leban Apr 19, 2018
A graffiti project Oppenheimer created with friends in West Jerusalem to introduce Arabic and other languages spoken in Israel-Palestine into public spaces; a year later it was mostly spray-painted over except for the Hebrew-only sections.

Israel at 70

Acts of nonviolence can heal the world

This past summer, in the South Hebron Hills, a girl called down to me from the gnarled branches of a tree and knocked me in the head with a ripe, fuzzy…
By Rena Oppenheimer Apr 18, 2018
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa (Photo/Wikimedia-Technion  CC BY-SA 2.0)

Israel at 70

Israel’s world-class universities are a valuable investment

Israel is known worldwide as the startup nation for its technology innovation, second only to Silicon Valley for its technology success. According to…
By Stephen Grand Apr 18, 2018

From the J. Archive

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

May 21, 1948 Birth of the State of Israel was celebrated in San Francisco in the Veterans Building with a rousing mass meeting sponsored by all the…
By J. Staff Apr 18, 2018
Rabbi Yossi Marcus' son at the shuk in Israel

Israel at 70

How I met my brother

When our tour guide Gadi rolled down the window and addressed the security guard as “achi” — “my brother” — I was surprised that he just happened to have…
By Rabbi Yossi Marcus Apr 18, 2018
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