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Ricki Alon cherishes Israel as a "Safe Haven" for all Jews — such as these immigrant children, seen here after arriving in Israel on a flight from Ethiopia, Oct. 29, 2012. (Photo/JTA-Uriel Sinai-Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael at 70

What Israel means to me: safe haven

Ricki Alon by Ricki Alon April 9, 2018April 9, 2018
Carol Weitz (pink top, holding an issue of J.) with her AJWS delegation in India
Posted inOpinion

My trip to India was another reminder of our sacred duty to others

Carol Weitz by Carol Weitz April 9, 2018April 9, 2018
Israel at 70 is a cranky, adolescent country, one that is still growing, stretching, lurching along.
Posted inIsrael at 70

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
In 1979, famed Zionist Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg observed that insufficient support for Israel had become the sole reason for excommunication in the American Jewish community. (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inIsrael at 70

Why is ‘anti-Israel’ the only cause for excommunication in American Judaism?

Aaron Hahn Tapper by Aaron J. Hahn Tapper April 8, 2018April 8, 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
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

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