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There are some people who by nature alarmists. Those folks are the types who I would hear say, speaking about anti-semitism in the United...

People do not know what to make of ultra-orthodox Jews, yet they are often fascinated by them as well. They are one of us, a member of...

Last Friday I had the thrilling experience of running in the Tel Aviv marathon. Let me qualify that, I ran in the 10 K race as part of...

Shortly after the founding of the State of Israel, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence,...

Within the first two sentences of the US Declaration of Independence, G-d is mentioned twice. It speaks of ‘the station to which Nature’s...

Tu B’shvat for me as a kid meant giving money to plant a tree in Israel, and eating fruits indigenous to Israel. We would then get a...

Jerusalem of Gold is possibly the most well-known contemporary Jewish song, certainly the most well-known Israeli song. People are...

History documents many revolutions of the oppressed over the ruling powers. In more recent times the French revolution and the Russian...

Over one tenth of the population in the US has been treated with anti-depressant medicine in the past month, studies show. Some people...

Jews scrubbing the streets of Vienna in May 1938 before the war _________________________________________________________________________...

We are standing at the Herodion, the fortress built by King Herod, the last Jewish kind to rule in the past 2000 years. He was a...

Trumpeldor Tel Aviv Cemetery If you want to know about the history of a place, go to the cemetery. In Paris and Rome the cemeteries are...

We are here in Jerusalem in the Old City, a few hundred meters away from the Temple Mount where the miracle of Chanukah happened. As you...

This is Rabbi Jonathan Feldman coming to you from Tel Aviv, and you can see behind me the city, the coastline which sprung out of sand...

This year right after Yom Kippur hit its concluding crescendo with the blowing of the shofar, the synagogue broke into singing ‘next year...

This week, which is the week leading up to Rosh Hashanah, we say extra prayers, called Selichot, or Prayers of Forgiveness, to prepare us...

Hi this is Noa Feldman. I am Rabbi Jonathan Feldman’s daughter. That means that I also made Aliya. I’m an 11 year old girl moving to a...

We are going into our fourth week in Israel, and we now feel like the veterans. The first Shabbat was very moving, both Friday night at...

Shalom from the Holy Land! It is 3 weeks post Aliyah for our family and I would like to share a few thoughts…. The neighborhood where we...

We landed in Israel a week ago. This milestone is significant because we are used to coming to Israel for a week, and then heading back...

Three months ago, we moved to Israel to fulfill a lifelong dream. It is often the most mundane moments of being here in Israel that we...