Extraordinary things are going on behind the colorful walls of the EMUNAH Sarah Herzog Children’s Center on a quiet residential street in the lower Galilee town of Afula. Teenagers are running a successful Judaica gift enterprise; youngsters of all ages are vying to be part of an entertainment ...

There is a saying: “Educate a young man and you educate one person only. Educate a young woman and you educate an entire family.”

With this in mind, the EMUNAH Florence and Joseph Appleman College of Art and Technology in Jerusalem set up its Mechina (Pre-Academic) Program. The only ...

The Babylonian Talmud asked, “What does afikomen mean? Rav said: That they must not uproot from one company to another. Samuel said: Mushrooms for myself and squabs for Abba. Rav Chanina ben Shila and Rav Yochanan said: “Dates, roasted grains, and nuts.” None of the three seemingly unrelated ...

Today, if you look carefully, among the trendy cafes, chic boutiques and modern office buildings of Tel Aviv as it celebrates its centennial, you’ll find surprising evidence of both new and old spiritual life in Israel’s original, custom-built, all-Jewish city. It’s the last thing you’d expect to ...

Since opening in Israel in 2004 in Shimon Peres Park, adjacent to the Holon Children’s Museum, Dialogue in the Dark has had more than 200,000 visitors, including school children. One of 14 such facilities located around the world, its aim is to overcome prejudice against the disabled, particularly ...

“What’s in a name?” – Shakespeare asked, claiming that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But for the Zionist movement, a Rosen by the Hebrew name of Vardi definitely smells sweeter.

From its inception, the Zionist movement presented its agenda as bringing about a ...

It is 2 am. The telephone rings in a Tel Aviv suburb. A young woman answers, "I am on my way." Quickly she puts on her olive-drabs, and, so as not to awaken her husband and baby, quietly steals out of the house.

The call told of a car accident in the Negev; the driver, a ...

The Home that Was
Meirav and Talya are sisters. Meirav has brown hair, Talya has red, and both have thick bouncy curls. Their family was poor, six people eating and sleeping in a ramshackle single-room apartment in rundown South Tel Aviv, but theirs was a happy home. Meirav liked to read, ...

Three key men in Israel, dealing with the phenomenon of energy, agree that alternate renewable sources in this country could have been developed earlier. Top scientists, the know-how and technology (and, more recently, environment consciousness) have all been present since the 1950's. That is ...