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Israel at 70

From the 2007 film "Waltz With Bashir"
Posted inIsrael at 70

10 modern Israeli films to watch on Israel’s 70th birthday

Lexi Leban by Lexi Leban April 6, 2018April 6, 2018
Mallow — or malva sylvestris — is one of several edible members of the Malvaceae family. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inJewish Life

Cooking with the common weed (no, not that kind) that sustained Israel in ’48

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer April 6, 2018April 6, 2018
Stanford University students in Jerusalem on a Birthright Israel trip in 2017.
Posted inIsrael at 70

The lessons of Jewish history, Steve Jobs and the Tenth Roman Legion

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg April 6, 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
An after-work Hebrew lesson for new emigres in Dimona, 1955 (Photo/Moshe Pridan-National Photo Collection)
Posted inIsrael at 70

‘Yiddish not spoken here’ — but my dad had a different idea

Vavi Toran by Vavi Toran April 5, 2018April 6, 2018
On the cover of our print edition this week: "Hipster Herzl," part of Israeli artist Amit Shimoni's Hipstory series, reimagines the legendary Zionist leader and his very hipster beard.
Posted inLetter to Readers

On the cover: 70 years of Herzl’s dream

by Sue Fishkoff April 5, 2018April 5, 2018
a family waves israeli flags ecstatically
Posted inIsrael at 70

Party like it’s 1948 at these Bay Area Israel Independence Day events

by J. Staff April 5, 2018April 9, 2018
Eisner family music box with art by Arthur Szyk
Posted inIsrael at 70

The heirloom music box that still pulls on my heartstrings

Rabbi Dennis Eisner by Rabbi Dennis Eisner April 4, 2018April 5, 2018
Israeli police scuffle with Haredi Orthodox men protesting the arrests of two yeshiva students charged with draft evasion, in Jerusalem, Oct. 19, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inIsrael at 70

Just like the Bay Area, Israel is overdue for its own ‘Big One’

Douglas E. Goldman by Douglas E. Goldman April 4, 2018April 4, 2018

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