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Students praying at the Jewish Herzlia school in Cape Town in the 1960s (Photo/Courtesy South African Jewish Museum)
Posted inIsrael at 70

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)
Posted inHolidays

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
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, leaning over the balcony of the Drei Konige Hotel during the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, Aug. 29, 1897. (Photo/JTA-GPO-Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael at 70

It’s time to reclaim the ‘Z-word,’ by focusing on Zionist ideas (plural)

Gil Troy by Gil Troy April 10, 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)
Posted inIsrael at 70

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)
Posted inIsrael at 70

The laborers and thinkers who gave up everything to build a nation

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

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