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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
Mosaic art on the wall that separates Gaza from Moshav Netiv HaAsara (Photo/Lily Greenberg Call)
Posted inIsrael at 70

Building bridges to peace over formidable terrain

Lily Greenberg Call by Lily Greenberg Call April 13, 2018April 13, 2018
Julia Hernandez Nierenberg in Tsfat
Posted inIsrael at 70

Israel showed me I have a place in the global Jewish community

Julia Hernandez Nierenberg by Julia Hernandez Nierenberg April 12, 2018April 12, 2018
"Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem" by Francesco Hayez, 1867
Posted inIsrael at 70

Here’s what we need to tell young people about Israel

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen April 12, 2018April 12, 2018
Eden Luvishis (right) with fellow travelers in Israel
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Darkness of Poland gives way to spiritual light of Israel

Eden Luvishis by Eden Luvishis April 11, 2018April 11, 2018
Students praying at the Jewish Herzlia school in Cape Town in the 1960s (Photo/Courtesy South African Jewish Museum)
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In South Africa, we were overjoyed by the ‘modern miracle’ of Israel

Mervyn Danker by Mervyn Danker April 11, 2018April 12, 2018
Ohlone leader Corinna Gould at a protest of construction on top of a shellmound in Berkeley, April 9, 2016 (Photo/Flickr-Wendy Kenin CC BY-ND 2.0)
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The Shoah is my story. So is our genocide of Native Americans.

Rabbi Dev Noily by Rabbi Dev Noily April 11, 2018April 11, 2018
In the aftermath of the Six-Day War, a huge crowd streamed toward the Western Wall. (Courtesy/Linda Kurtz)
Posted inIsrael at 70

The miracle of Israel, the curse of the occupation

Rabbi Brian Lurie by Rabbi Brian Lurie April 11, 2018
The Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai reading at Tmol Shilshom Cafe in 1994, "a cultural hub in Jerusalem" that Zella Lezak counts as one of her favorite places in Israel. (Photo/Wikimedia-Yair Medina CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Convincing my high school peers that Israel is more than black and white

Zella Lezak by Zella Lezak April 10, 2018April 11, 2018
A construction project of Solel Boneh, Israel's first construction comapny, in 1974 (Photo/Wikimedia-Colonel Mike Eldar CC BY-SA 3.0)
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The laborers and thinkers who gave up everything to build a nation

Michael Brodsky by Michael Brodsky April 9, 2018April 9, 2018

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