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In the Footsteps of the Maccabees

In 2003, my wife, daughter and I spent the summer in Israel. We had already made aliyah, but had temporarily…

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Ramot: A Genuine Kehillah

By Nachum Amsel Twenty-five years ago, I moved to a neighborhood in Ramot Aleph called Neve Orot. My wife and…

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The NBN Generation: Twenty-Somethings on Making a New Life in Israel

By Zvi Volk Like many of his friends, Max Rabin learned in a yeshivah in Israel the year after he…

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How Much Hebrew is Enough?

They say that the only time you hear Ivrit spoken on Derech Beit Lechem, a major street near where I…

HISTORY

The Riddle of the Shushan Gate

The 70 long years of the Babylonian exile had ended.  Darius, the benevolent Persian king, son of Queen Esther and…

ISRAEL

On and Off the Beaten Track in. . . Hamat Tiberias

  Thermal wonders from the ancient world  According to our tradition, there are four holy cities in Eretz Yisrael. Jerusalem,…

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On and Off the Beaten Track at… Independence Hall

  In the following piece, tour guide Peter Abelow describes several tourist sites that are ideal to visit to commemorate…

ISRAEL

Dream or Disappointment?

The Jewish State was conceived in dreams—dreams of a glorious past and hopes for an even more glorious future. Only…

ISRAEL

A Love Story in Anticipation of a Happy Ending

Twenty years ago Jewish Action devoted the better part of an issue to analyzing “Israel at Forty.” At the time,…

ISRAEL

On and Off the Beaten Track in…the Har’el Lookout

During Israel’s War of Independence, the construction of the Burma Road, a bypass to Jerusalem through the mountains, was an…

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Judea and Identity

Almost 2,000 years ago our forebears were uprooted from Judea. Though dispersed and scattered throughout the world, They continuously and…

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