Tuesday, July 1, 2008

No stiff upper lip as U.K. Jews celebrate Israel @ 60

By Amiram Barkat

The unprecedented show of pride and self-confidence by British Jews in the nation's first-ever Salute to Israel parades may be a sign of the. . .

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Israel @ 60: Confronting denial

By Judea Pearl

Each year, in preparation for Israel's birthday, newspaper editors feel an uncontrolled urge, a divine calling in fact, to invite Arab writers to. . .

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Tale of the ‘Stranger’ leaps from book to musical

By Anita K. Kantrowitz

It was 1985, and many of the Ethiopian Jews who'd been airlifted from Sudan were being housed in a hotel in Netanya, Israel. When writer Sonia. . .

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The transformation of Israeli food—from falafel to fennel

By Judy Nathan

The 60th anniversary of the State of Israel is a good time to reflect on how this young country has progressed during its mere six decades of. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Israel and I: The first 60 years

By Tom Tugend

By ship and plane, I've traveled to Israel 15 times over the last 60 years and, looking back, my relationship to the Jewish state has a certain. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

18 essential Hebrew words and phrases

By Dikla Kadosh

In honor of Israel's 60th Birthday, we thought you should learn a few key words and phrases in Hebrew that will bring you closer to Israel's people. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

A birthday gift

By David Suissa

Here we are, Jews in every corner of the world, awash in a frenzy of celebrations for Israel -- all because of a birthday. And not just any birthday,. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Hollywood-Israel link flourishing

By Tom Tugend

A group of hotshot Hollywood television executives sit around a table sipping Evian water, working their cellphones and bemoaning the lack of fresh. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Festival-goers this year can party under the moonlight

By Celia Soudry

For Yoram Gutman, the Israel Independence Day Festival is a yearlong effort.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

What Israel means to me

Tovah Feldshuh "I love, admire, and will eternally raise money for Israel because I am well aware that she takes bullets for me. She is my life. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

For Israeli ex-pats, the homeland is calling

By Ayala Or-el

Merav and Roy Lobel are going back to Israel. Since the birth of their baby boy, now eight months old, they have longed to be with their families.. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

New generation has a new take on Israel

By Julie G Fax

Earlier this spring, David Weiner, a 32-year-old social studies curriculum publisher from Los Angeles, went on an unlikely pairing of back-to-back. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

The country’s most formidable challenge? Welding its dual identities

By Michael Oren

will never forget my first day in Israel when a group of teenagers pointed at my tallit and laughed. It was the summer of 1970, and, at age 15, I had. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Israeli rapper Subliminal has built a music empire

By Dikla Kadosh

The first song Ya'akov Shimoni ever wrote was called, "Genesis." The lyrics -- in English, Hebrew and French -- were about pollution, global warming,. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Turning 60 with Israel—just Fed-Ex those Dead Sea anti-aging creams

By Jane Ulman

Israel, girlfriend, what is your problem? Why all this hoopla and hype? Does the whole world have to know that you and I -- hey, break out the Botox. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Roots, reality and Israel’s 60th

By Jacob Dayan

It is a proud and glorious week as Israel, her 7.2 million citizens and millions of friends around the world celebrate the 60th anniversary of. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Rabbis work to build ties of U.S. Jews to Israel

By Amy Klein Religion Editor

Twelve years ago, newly arrived at the Reconstructionist Malibu Jewish Center, Rabbi Judith Halevy gave a sermon about her long-term commitment to. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

A 15-year plan for Israel

By Gidi Grinstein

At its 60th anniversary, Israel needs a new vision that not only will guide its priorities and inform its actions, but also will be relevant to the. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Paradoxes characterize life in Israel

By Yossi Klein Halevi

To be an Israeli at the time of the state's 60th anniversary means to be resigned to living with insoluble emotional and political paradoxes. It. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

History disproves myth that founding Zionists were naive

By Judea Pearl

We are often told, mostly by anti-Israel propagandists, that the early Zionists' attitude toward the indigenous Arab population in Palestine was. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Through the looking glass with Friends of Sabeel

By Tom Tugend

Covering a meeting of Friends of Sabeel is a strange experience. "Strange" as in walking through the looking glass and encountering a reverse. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Israel: A work in progress

By Glenn Yago

From the birth of the Zionist movement more than a century ago through its 60 years as a Jewish state, Israel has come of age amid a vastly changing. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Post-Zionism in a diaspora world

By Tom Teicholz

What does it mean to be a Jew in a Post-Zionist world?

Thursday, May 15, 2008

How to answer the most common anti-Israel charges

By John L. Rosove

Some charges criticizing Israel are distortions and slanted, based on faulty information and half-truths, animus, and even classic anti-Semitism.. . .