‘Sacrifice is the Israeli way’. One student’s account of her moving tour of Sderot
No matter how many Israel Day parades we may have attended, coins we have dropped in a JNF charity box, or times we have sung Hatikva, as diaspora Jews our connection to Israel…
Sukkot and the swinging pa’ot pendulum of haredi impressions
I have never seen so many pa’ot in my life. Stepping off the 72 bus at Mea She’arim, I felt like I was in another world. It wasn’t just the sheer number of…
Fighting the feathered expat nest
A week ago I was walking the streets of my small commuter town in Westchester, eyes lingering on signs for that extra moment, trying to save the image in my memory. Despite how…
