Taking Stock at 60 By Amiel Ungar

Learning from Experience: Integration Then and Now By Lili Eylon

Then and Now in EMUNAH Homes By Gail Lichtman

The Changing Tastes of Israel By Gil Marks

EMUNAH V’Omanut Exhibition

The Diversity of Israel By Yael ...

Few aspects of Israeli society have changed more in the country’s six decades than its food, at least for a sizeable segment of the population. Israeli food once consisted of a simple selection of local commercial products and produce sold from a cramped makolet (small market). Today customers ...

The Declaration of Independence of May 14, 1948, guaranteed that: “Israel will be open for Jewish immigration and for the ‘Ingathering of the Exiles’…” This was followed in 1950 by the Law of Return, which granted every Jew the automatic right to immigrate to Israel and become a citizen. Within ...

“If I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?” Hillel the Elder might not have imagined it, but his words have become the touchstone of a small, but growing movement in Jerusalem. All over Israel’s capital, more and more residents are showing an interest in Jewish environmental ...

They were the unsung heroes of Israel’s War of Independence – the 3,500 men and women from 43 countries around the world who, 60 years ago, left their homes and families to fight for the fledgling Jewish state as part of Machal (a Hebrew acronym for “volunteers from abroad”). Their contribution was ...

On May 14, 1948, the leaders of the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine were summoned to Meir Dizengoff’s home in Tel Aviv. There, in a dramatic and historic moment, David Ben Gurion pronounced the establishment of the State of Israel. Early the next morning Egyptian planes bombarded the city, Arab armies ...

In the early decades of the State of Israel the world thought of Israeli women as either hardy kibbutzniks, tough soldiers or Golda Meir-type politicos. The image has been hard to shake but the reality of women’s status in Israel today is far more complex.

Last April, the Israel ...

“Fifty years ago, the children sent to children’s homes, in the main, came from homes with severe economic problems,” explains David Fridman, director of EMUNAH’s Neve Michael Children’s Home. Their parents were loving, caring, functional people. The children were sent to the homes because of dire ...

I vividly remember a cold November evening in 1960 when I arrived at Haifa harbor for one purpose: to accompany a just arrived family from Morocco to their new, as yet unknown, home in Israel. No one was told where we were heading as we boarded the mini-truck ( called "tender" in Hebrew.) ...