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First Person

The names of lynching victims are inscribed on weathered steel columns that hang from the ceiling at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo/JTA-Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person, Local Voice, Opinion, Travel

The Montgomery lynching memorial is a project of American teshuvah

Rabbi Michael Lezak by Rabbi Michael Lezak May 2, 2018May 3, 2018
Shoshana Hebshi at her home in Santa Rosa
Posted inOpinion

My community is healing, but the heartache still lingers

Shoshana Hebshi by Shoshana Hebshi April 20, 2018April 19, 2018
Israeli tanks cross the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War (Photo/Wikimedia-Israel Defense Forces)
Posted inIsrael at 70

An eyewitness to Yom Kippur War, Ethiopian aliyah, Soviet Jewry and more

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn April 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.
Posted inIsrael at 70

Israel drove me away from Judaism — the struggle to fix it led me back

Rena Oppenheimer by Rena Oppenheimer April 18, 2018April 18, 2018
Rabbi Yossi Marcus' son at the shuk in Israel
Posted inIsrael at 70

How I met my brother

Rabbi Yossi Marcus by Rabbi Yossi Marcus April 18, 2018April 18, 2018
The city of Haifa (Photo/Wikimedia-Berthold Werner)
Posted inIsrael at 70

My joy and my heartache

Eva Seligman-Kennard by Eva Seligman-Kennard 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

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