Passover
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Passover marks the moment our ancestors walked out of Egypt and stepped into freedom as a nation. The Exodus is also a map for your inner life. The Hebrew word for Egypt, Mitzrayim, comes from meitzarim — narrow places, constriction. Egypt isn't just a location. It represents the tight places inside us: the habits that […]
Sara Yoheved Rigler
Current
6 min read
Living in Israel during the current war with Iran, in between running to our bomb shelter during ballistic missile attacks, I usually try to chill out by reading the news. (Yes, I know that’s crazy, but a brain that repeatedly gets interrupted by air raid sirens during sleep cycles doesn’t think clearly.) What irritates me […]
Sir Moses Montefiore: The great British philanthropist and Orthodox Jew Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was once seated at a dinner party next to an antisemite who declared he’d just come back from a trip to Japan, where they “have neither pigs nor Jews.” Without pause, Sir Moses replied “Accordingly, you and I should go there […]
Dafnie Beck was a flight attendant for El Al. That's where she met Itay, an air marshal who loved his job, loved protecting people, and loved Israel with every fiber of his being. They met during a layover in New York. Two days later, they happened to be on the same flight home. That flight […]
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An anti-Israel channel claimed Israel is digging under the Al-Aqsa mosque, threatening its foundations — and that archaeologists have found nothing to prove Jews ever lived here. We took a tour to find out for ourselves.
