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Passover preserves the memory of Jewish people's past voyages March 26, 2021
The Human Spirit: Yusef revisited March 12, 2021
Israel: We must not teach history, but instill memory February 25, 2021
How I fell in love with Purim in Israel February 24, 2021
Considering conversion: From Texas church songs to Israel hassidic tunes February 12, 2021
By 2065, Israel will be most crowded nation on earth - good news January 15, 2021
Thankful for getting the coronavirus vaccine - opinion December 31, 2020
Sewing circle 'Chicks with Sticks' knit their mitzvahs December 18, 2020
The miracle story of a man who had a rod through his head - and survived December 4, 2020
Removing an immigrant's Jewish standing November 20, 2020
A wedding when less is more November 6, 2020
Meeting the Druze women who make masks in the coronavirus age October 23, 2020
‘Living with’ September 25, 2020
Israel and the UAE: My first phone call to Dubai September 11, 2020
The Enigma of family secrets August 28, 2020
The beauty of photographing cemeteries August 15, 2020
Why were advertisements with women torn down? July 31, 2020
What's the truth behind wearing face masks? July 17, 2020
Coronavirus has given us a summer of 'dissonance' July 2, 2020
When Statues Come Down June 19, 2020
The bond between the Torah portion and food in my kitchen June 5, 2020
Sheltering in Jerusalem during COVID-19 brings tears, pride May 22, 2020
Living online in times of coronavirus May 8, 2020
Independence Day: 72+1 new reasons I love Israel April 24, 2020
Happy Passover to Ilan Chaim April 12, 2020
A Passover seder for two, I hope... March 26, 2020
Born on the high seas: babies on their way to Israel March 13, 2020
This is what UN blacklisted Israeli companies really do February 28, 2020
A winter in the French Alps with French olim February 14, 2020
The Human Spirit: Their lives after January 31, 2020
Fiddler on the Israeli Roof January 17, 2020
The various stories behind the abandoned properties in Israel December 20, 2019
Happy Grandparents' Day December 6, 2019
San Bernardino November 22, 2019
Israel's Daily Reality: Aluma November 8, 2019
WORLD'S MOST UNUSUAL BOOK FAIR! October 25, 2019
SUKKOT: EMBRACING UNCERTAINTY October 10, 2019
A 'SHTISEL' NEW YEAR September 27, 2019
DIASPORA'S OLDEST COMMUNITY GETS A CONTEMPORARY SHOWCASE September 13, 2019
KNEADED OUTREACH August 27, 2019
Wedding Season August 16, 2019
WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN NEW YORK August 2, 2019
From Generation to Generation July 19, 2019
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: #684 July 5, 2019
MORE THAN THE QUESTION OF 'UN-JEWISHING' SOMEONE June 21, 2019
The Eurovision Effect June 7, 2019
OPENING YOUR HOME TO THE CONFLICT May 24, 2019
INDEPENDENCE DAY: 71 + 1 NEW REASONS I LOVE ISRAEL May 3, 2019
PASSOVER AND THE HOLOCAUST April 25, 2019
ZACHARY BAUMEL AND GROWING UP AS AN ISRAELI April 12, 2019
SATISFYING ALL THE PALATES AT ROZA'S April 5, 2019
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: BEHIND THE CLOAK IT'S ALL ABOUT CONSCIENCE March 31, 2019
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: REDEFINING IMPACT AT THE OURCROWD SUMMIT March 15, 2019
LEARNING TO FOCUS WITH DINA HURWITZ March 1, 2019
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: HIS WORLD WAS A WIDE BRIDGE February 15, 2019
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: HYPERTEXT JERUSALEM February 1, 2019
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: THE PHONE NUMBER TO SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE January 18, 2019
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: THE BOY WHO FELL FIVE FLOORS DOWN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT January 4, 2019
The Human Spirit: The paradox of Jerusalem December 19, 2018
The Human Spirit: Forget thee not, Cyprus December 6, 2018
PEOPLE OF ISRAEL: DALIA BALLAS ITZIK November 23, 2018
JOY OF GIVING A KIDNEY November 9, 2018
WHEN A PICTURE COMES ALIVE October 26, 2018
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: RABBINICAL REUNION July 20, 2018
REMEMBERING OTHER PEOPLE'S PROBLEMS July 6, 2018
THE HUMAN SPIRIT:FOUR SYRIANS AND ONE SOLDIER June 8, 2018
'HAVA NAGILA' SAN MARCO May 25, 2018
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: SWIMMING FOR INCLUSIVENESS May 11, 2018
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: EYE-OPENING JOURNEY TO ETHIOPIA April 27, 2018
70 PLUS ONE: REASONS I LOVE ISRAEL April 18, 2018
FUNNY, you don't seem Ethiopian April 6, 2018
THREE BRITOT AND A BAR MITZVA March 16, 2018
Dancing Grandmas March 2, 2018
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: THE GREAT ISRAELI SALAD BAR OF INVESTMENT – 2018 February 15, 2018
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: THERE'S GOLD IN THOSE HILLS February 2, 2018
OBSERVATION: FIELD OF DREAMS IN KAFR KARA January 19, 2018
The Human Spirit, Home Delivery January 4, 2018
THE HUMAN SPIRIT, THE MORALITY OF TRAVEL – TO IRAN December 22, 2017
THE JOURNEY FROM INDIA December 8, 2017
JERUSALEM'S NEWEST ANCIENT SITE: THE PILGRIMS' ASCENT November 24, 2017
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: MEAN TOO November 10, 2017
WRITING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST IN 2017 October 27, 2017
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: WHEN MARIA MONTESSORI MEETS THE REBBE October 11, 2017
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: WHO BY STORM AND WHO BY FIRE September 29, 2017
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: BUYING THE CARRIAGE BEFORE THE BABY September 15, 2017
THE HUMAN SPIRIT:THE MYSTERIOUS GHETTO August 30, 2017
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH August 18, 2017
TIPPING POINT August 3, 2017
The Human Spirit: REUNION July 6, 2017
The Human Spirit: Take Grandma to See Wonder Woman June 23, 2017
The Sky Is Indeed the Limit June 9, 2017
The Human Spirit: Where were you when? Write it down! May 26, 2017
69-PLUS ONE NEW REASONS I LOVE ISRAEL May 1, 2017
The Human Spirit: Exodus via Cyprus April 14, 2017
The Human Spirit: Hijacking Feminism March 31, 2017
The Human Spirit: Ten Fingers March 17, 2017
The Human Spirit: of Pennies and Anemonies March 3, 2017
The Human Spirit: Liron's pillow February 17, 2017
The Human Spirit: Lunching with Cops February 3, 2017
The Human Spirit: Jerusalem seen through the board January 6, 2017
The Human Spirit: Getting into the fray December 23, 2016
The Human Spirit: Mending the world two persons at a time December 9, 2016
The Human Spirit: On the List November 26, 2016
The Human Spirit: Airbnb and the peril of reviews November 11, 2016
The Human Spirit: Back from the abyss October 28, 2016
The Human Spirit: I love them for their stains October 16, 2016
The Human Spirit: Heroines September 30, 2016
The Human Spirit: Twin terror September 16, 2016
The Human Spirit: Waving a bathing suit as a flag of freedom September 2, 2016
The Human Spirit: Airborne August 19, 2016
The Human Spirit: Endings August 5, 2016
The Human Spirit: Women's swim July 22, 2016
The Human Spirit: Je suis Hebron July 8, 2016
The Human Spirit: Spotlight June 24, 2016
The Human Spirit: Ingathering June 10, 2016
The Human Spirit: A somber day at the circus May 22, 2016
The Human Spirit: 68 newest reasons, plus 1 May 6, 2016
The Human Spirit: Death in the Forests April 15, 2016
In the Jerusalem Hills March 22, 2016
The Human Spirit: Thinking next March 18, 2016
The Human Spirit: Osteopetrosis and our little Israel March 4, 2016
The Human Spirit: What happened to Mother's Day? February 18, 2016
The Human Spirit: Pantry politics February 4, 2016
The Human Spirit: Dear Margot January 22, 2016
The Human Spirit: Training to deal with the really bad stuff January 7, 2016
The Human Spirit: Society of Survivors December 18, 2015
The Human Spirit: Expat Thanksgiving December 4, 2015
The Human Spirit: Labeling terror attacks November 20, 2015
The Human Spirit: Dr. Ruth in Motown November 6, 2015
The Human Spirit: Don’t call me rabbi October 23, 2015
The Human Spirit: Jewish fun October 9, 2015
The Human Spirit: Season of forgiveness September 25, 2015
The Human Spirit: A refugee names Louis September 11, 2015
The Human Spirit: Tom Friedman’s grocer August 28, 2015
The Human Spirit: Waters by the waters August 14, 2015
The Human Spirit: (In)sight seeing July 30, 2015
The Human Spirit: Water in Jerusalem July 17, 2015
The Human Spirit: From orphan to mother of 17 July 03, 2015
The Human Spirit: Swimmer 299 June 19, 2015
The Human Spirit: Branding at the Chief Rabbinates June 5, 2015
The Human Spirit: Risks of reporting May 15, 2015
The Human Spirit: In the saddle in open spaces May 1, 2015
67-plus-one new reasons I love Israel April 17, 2015
The Human Spirit: Running from Islamic State and fixing a heart in Jerusalem April 3, 2015
The Human Spirit: Bearing a baby for another March 20, 2015
The Human Spirit: Love, give, live March 6, 2015
The Human Spirit: Who’s speaking for whom? February 20, 2015
The Human Spirit: Voices February 6, 2015
The Human Spirit: ‘Je suis Hyper Cacher’ January 23, 2015
The Human Spirit: Empowered by grief January 9, 2015
The Human Spirit: My dear Jewish brethren December 26, 2014
The Human Spirit: Rabbi on skis December 12, 2014
The Human Spirit: Taking risks November 28, 2014
The Human Spirit: Not in my school November 14, 2014
The Human Spirit: BRCA on my mind October 31, 2014
The Human Spirit: Out in Mongolia October 14, 2014
The Human Spirit: Being Malke Bina October 3, 2014
The Human Spirit: 'Where are you from?' September 19, 2014
The human spirit: The woman in the Puma September 5, 2014
The Human Spirit: Political dilemmas in the supermarket August 22, 2014
The Human Spirit: When the doctor won’t treat Jews August 8, 2014
The Human Spirit: Music and missiles July 25, 2014
The Human Spirit: WhatsApp world Jul 11, 2014
The Human Spirit: Israeli Jewish women and demography Jun 27, 2014
When your synagogue reaches bat mitzva Jun 13, 2014
The Human Spirit: A Musical Odyssey May 30, 2014
The Human Spirit: In Piotrkow with Rena Quint May 16, 2014
66 plus 1 - reasons I love Israel May 1, 2014
The Human Spirit: Cousins April 17, 2014
The Human Spirit: Know where you’ve come from April 4, 2014
The Human Spirit: Gone to soldiers and princesses March 21, 2014
What’s in a day? The Human Spirit March 7, 2014
The human spirit: lifesaving at the mikve February 15, 2014
A thousand brides January 30, 2014
The Human Spirit: Free at last, but how? January 3, 2014
Time Out: A Heimish Resort December 12, 2013
The Human Spirit: Short Friday December 8, 2013
Sent to Siberia November 22, 2013
The Human Spirit: Lovely bones November 8, 2013
The Human Spirit: That feminist word October 24, 2013
The Human Spirit: Neighborhood hero October 11, 2013
The Human Spirit: The good and kind warehouse Sep 27, 2013
The Human Spirit: In defense of Israeli children Aug 30, 2013
The Human Spirit: Elul at Ground Zero Aug 16, 2013
The Human Spirit: When one good deed leads to another Aug 1, 2013
A breath of fresh air July 19th, 2013
The Human Spirit: Delay July 5th, 2013
Barbra Streisand and the sisterhood of troubled hearts June 21st, 2013
The Human Spirit: Are you my rabbi June 7th, 2013
The Human Spirit: Religious times are a-changin' May 24th, 2013
The Human Spirit: Local journey May 10th, 2013
In honor of Israel’s 65th birthday April 11th, 2013
No longer on the fringe March 21st, 2013
'Kol dichfin, kol ditzrich': All with special needs March 15th, 2013
The Human Spirit: Good deeds day February 28th, 2013
Hassidic women going beyond the comfort zone February 24th, 2013
The Human Spirit: Power of prayer in Washington February 15th, 2013
The Human Spirit: A kidney just like mom's January 31st, 2013
The Human Spirit: Knock-out January 18th, 2013
Chance Encounters January 3rd, 2013
The Human Spirit: Let's not extol intermarriage December 20th, 2012
The Human Spirit: Sigd Signals Nov. 22, 2012
The Human Spirit: When Bubbe and Zayde write back Nov. 09, 2012
The Human Spirit: Adi Hudja’s high heels Oct. 25, 2012
The Human Spirit: Prisoners of Zion Aug.31, 2012
The Human Spirit: We Owe an Apology Aug. 16, 2012
The Human Spirit: Daily Talmud Aug. 03, 2012
The Human Spirit: Protect and defend July 19, 2012
Overcoming hurdles June 14, 2012
The Human Spirit: Ya'ala Yali June 1, 2012
The Human Spirit: Bucking Authority May 17, 2012
The Human Spirit: Marching for Zion May 3, 2012
The Human Spirit: Reasons I Love Israel, 2012 April 19, 2012
The Human Spirit: Storytelling and the 'Titanic' April 5. 2012
The Human Spirit: The Nameless War March 22, 2012
The Human Spirit: A Winning Season March 8, 2012
The Human Spirit: Mother's Day February 24, 2012
The Human Spirit: My Cousin's Question February 10, 2012
The Human Spirit: Rose Colored Lenses January 27, 2012
The Human Spirit: Learning from each other January 13, 2012
The Human Spirit: What do religious women want? December 30, 2011
The Chabbad Army at Ease December 2, 2011
The Human Spirit: Riding Through the Long Night Novemeber 18, 2011
The Human Spirit: That Mysterious Dollar November 4, 2011
The Human Spirit: Sisera's Mother October 21, 2011
The Human Spirit: Ruth Gruber Turns 100 October 7, 2011
The Human Spirit: Without Words September 23, 2011
The Human Spirit: Visting Pearl Harbor August 05, 2011
The Human Spirit:The Long Journey from Tukul to Bar July 22, 2011
The Human Spirit: New Light July 8, 2011
The Human Spirit: Kidney Give Away June 24, 2011
The Human Spirit: Expressions with an Orthodox twist June 10, 2011
The Human Spirit: For Our Good Health May 27, 2011

The Human Spirit: Gilad's Guitar

May 13, 2011
Bronya Shaffer's Women's Seder April 15, 2011
The Human Spirit: Continental Justice April 1, 2011
A Taste of Home March 18, 2011
The Human Spirit: Conversions Without Tears March 04, 2011

Stop Preaching to Us About the IDF Conversions

Feb. 18, 2011
The Human Spirit: Long Distance Learning Feb. 04, 2011
The Million Woman Mother's Day March Jan. 21, 2011
The Human Spirit: Let's Hear These Women Out Jan. 7, 2011
The Human Spiriit: A Roll this Side of Heaven Dec. 24, 2010
The Human Spirit: Accepting Help Graciously Dec. 10, 2010
The Human Spirit: Hoop Dreams Nov. 25, 2010
The Human Spirit: For Sarah, Rivka, Rachel and Leah Nov. 12, 2010
The Human Spirit: For Those Who Gave Their Lives Oct. 29, 2010
The Human Spirit: Talking About the Intifada Oct. 15, 2010
The Human Spirit: Over the Tractor Din  
The Human Spirit: Flora's Immigrant Absorption Sept. 17, 2010
The Human Spirit: Elul Lessons Sept. 3, 2010
The Human Spirit: Where We Draw the Line August 20, 2010
The Human Spirit: August Challenges August 6, 2010
The Human Spirit: Unbridled Love July 23, 2010
The Human Spirit: Eleven Months of Kaddish July 9, 2010
The Human Spirit: Women and Children June 25, 2010
The Human Spirit: One Jewish People June 11, 2010
The Human Spirit: Prize Winners May 14, 2010
The Human Spirit: 62 Reasons I Love Israel April 30, 2010
The Human Spirit: To A Relative Abroad April 20, 2010
The Human Spirit: Let My People Go April 2, 2010
The Stranger Among Us March 19, 2010
The Human Spirit: Making the Right Decision March 5, 2010
The Human Spirit: Thinking About Haiti Feb, 19, 2010
The Human Spirit: Picking Up the Scent Feb. 05, 2010
The Human Spirit: Sight and Insight Jan. 21, 2010
The Human Spirit: Lunch with the Righteous Jan 8, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

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