“I am confident that Israel’s future can only go (in) one direction, and that is up.” These are the words of billionaire Donald Trump, who recently purchased the site of the old Elite chocolate factory in Ramat Gan, Israel, and is planning to build a 70-story luxury housing tower next to the ...

It is traditional for each army unit to have a party marking the completion of training, but the party for Dani Aharanov's unit was scheduled for last July 12, the day the Hezbollah war broke out. Instead of a celebration that day, Dani and his buddies were quickly sent north where they served ...

Near the beginning of the Passover Seder, immediately following Kiddush and the first washing of the hands and well before eating the matzah, is the ritual of karpas – the dipping of a piece of a raw vegetable less than the size of a large olive into either salt water or vinegar. However, nowhere ...

“When I started studying at Midreshet EMUNAH in 2001, I was a parent filled with guilt and fears,” recalls Avigail Kadish, a mother of six from Moshav Beit Meir in the Judean Hills. “I had a distorted concept of parenting in which I thought I had to be my children’s friend and was obliged to meet ...

In May 1948, and for many months thereafter, nine scraps of paper inscribed Doar Ivri (‘Hebrew Post’) could be bought over any post office counter in Israel for the equivalent of three dollars, with nothing more to pay if they had descriptive “tabs” attached. Today, these same scraps of paper are ...

Gazing out of her office window at the imposing view of the mountains of Meron, Ruth Oz had a wistful look on her face. “Those mountains were once beautiful; now they are black. Each time I look at them it reminds me of the bombs, and I fear it will happen again—soon,” she said.

Ruth Oz ...

Anyone who has ever raised teenage girls or been a teenager herself, recognizes the challenges of this volatile stage of life. Social pressures; hormonal changes; identity issues; testing authority; questioning religious beliefs; the need for privacy—these are all issues that confront almost every ...