Month: April 2012

Wanna learn the history of Israel in a nutshell? Here is is – in a single headlines. The Zionists proclaim new State of Israel Read […]

A few years ago, Davidi forgot his tefillin (phylacteries…whatever that word means) on a bus on a school trip. The school made some small effort […]

I can’t explain it but the older I get, the more my children seem in control, and the quicker I seem to lose mine. On […]

It’s an interesting question and one that Israel answers each year. Aliza asked me the question a few moments ago as we were discussing our […]

With several years of posts behind me on previous Memorial Days, I went back and read them and would like to share them… Yom HaZikaron […]

Tonight begins a day that I dreaded every year that I had a son in the standing army of Israel. The first and second year, […]

Guest post by:  Sarah Herskowitz As we ready ourselves for Israel’s upcoming birthday celebration and reflect on the last 64 years, we can’t help but swell […]

By Sarah Herskowitz As we ready ourselves for Israel’s upcoming birthday celebration and reflect on the last 64 years, we can’t help but swell with […]

It was, as anticipated, a quiet Shabbat and yet it was wonderful. If all my Shabbatot (Sabbaths) would be like this for the rest of […]