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Identity is not a simple choice; it is a combination of upbringing, inclination, and life experience over time. It becomes an essential factor in how we parse the world. Is Treif Food Really Food? Once, on a family road trip from Atlanta to Miami to visit my parents, we stopped ...
One Sunday afternoon I saw Mathews hit a baseball so hard on a fly to center field that, even though it could not leave the park, he had crossed home by the time the center-fielder reached the ball. At the Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem, I was talking with some Shearith Israel stalwarts ...
We are a unique people bonded together for a divine mission. A nation before a homeland! B’nei Yisrael, children of Jacob, children of Israel, inseparable from Eretz Yisrael, given by G-d over 3,300 years ago. Mahane Yehuda, Shabbat dinner in the Old City with Rabbi Shlomo Gestetner,...
I go to Israel often, and each time I discover something new, something amazing. And all this is accomplished despite Israel’s nearly unlimited resources devoted to its defense while compromising little of its democratic underpinnings. To me, Israel means history, our history. It means birthright...
For me, being in Israel is coming home. It’s coming home to a place that has given my family new life and an identity based on a living, flowing and irrepressibly hopeful Judaism. It is a noisy, colorful, tight-knit home not without its secrets, old wounds and conflicts. As with...