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Israel at 70
“Hanging” out on the beach in Tel Aviv. (Photo by Mason Resnick)
August 1, 2018, 11:16 am
Highland Park photog captures Israelis’ ‘unguarded moments’
Two new e-books celebrate Israel’s 70th
By Debra Rubin
Alex Ben-Abba
July 27, 2018, 3:21 pm
Israeli Americans on a teetering bridge
The crisis in Israel-diaspora relations has put new pressure on a group that could help mind the gap
By Orli Santo
Rabbi Rick Jacobs speaking at the 2015 Reform biennial in Orlando: “I can distinguish between being upset at the government and being in touch with the people and with Jewish ideals.” URJ
July 27, 2018, 1:45 pm
Making the case for passionate, progressive Zionism
As Israel-diaspora rift grows, Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs plays a key role in seeking to engage disengaged young Jews
By Gary Rosenblatt
Israelis “always need to listen” to the diaspora, says jeweler Moran Landman. But she also considers its input on Israeli affairs “a risk.” NATHAN JEFFAY/JW
July 27, 2018, 1:29 pm
There’s a wall between us
Young Israelis don’t know very much about the issues that animate American Jews. But that may be changing
By Nathan Jeffay
Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s warnings of the threat Eastern European Jews faced galloped like Paul Revere through every shtetl and town. KNESSET.GOV.IL
July 27, 2018, 1:01 pm
Present at the creation: Zionists before Zionism
An older generation knew the 70 years before ’48
By Jonathan Mark
Golda Meir at United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York Inaugural Din- ner in 1959. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
July 27, 2018, 12:48 pm
When the relationship was good
Golda Meir’s artful cultivation of American Jewry
By Francine Klagsburn
The Gaza border clashes last month, and the IDF’s response, brought the Israel-diaspora relationship into sharp relief. GETTY IMAGES
July 27, 2018, 12:34 pm
Navigating contradictory geographies
Welcome to the dysfunctional relationship between Israelis and American Jews
By Yossi Klein Halevi
The power of place: A feeling of “at-homeness” in America. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
July 27, 2018, 11:48 am
At home in that other Promised Land
Does Zionism ask too much of the American Jewish community?
By Yehuda Kurtzer
Richard Corman, former executive director of the JCC of Central New Jersey in Scotch Plains, now lives in Jerusalem.
July 27, 2018, 11:40 am
Coming to the City of Gold in their golden years
Garden State boomers make Israel home
By Gil Hoffman
1 year old child injected with novel hemophiliac drug.
July 27, 2018, 11:17 am
Innovative doctors at Sheba medical center
Tel HaShomer are injecting new life into ailing patients
By Ken Stephens
July 27, 2018, 11:08 am
Home and away
By Robert Goldblum
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