Israel Independence Day
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It's remarkable how quickly such a young country like Israel has become a global leader in medicine, innovation, and technology. But perhaps more important than what Israel has built is the shared purpose, meaning, and hope it has created for Jews everywhere. Here are five things you may not know about Israel today. 1. Israel […]
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I’m not Jewish, but if I was, I think the first lesson I would teach my children is that life isn’t fair. How else can a Jewish parent explain to their children the injustice and discrimination they will be forced to face as they grow up? How else can parents answer questions that have no […]
The Myth of the Empty Land When we learn Jewish history, the story of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel seems to end with the Jewish-Roman wars of the 1st and 2nd centuries. From there, normative history courses shift to the Diaspora: the Talmudic academies in Babylonia, the Golden Age in Spain, Jewish […]
It was the day after Yom Kippur, 2023, a gorgeous fall morning in greater Miami, when Yosh (Joshua) Markell, then 40, was driving his young daughter to school and spotted flashing lights in his rearview mirror. He pulled over, assuming it was routine stop. A broken brake light, maybe, an expired plate. He had nothing […]
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Tucker Carlson and John Mearsheimer claimed they couldn't think of a single time in the last 40 years when the US chose its own interests over Israel's. I decided to jog their memory.
