Yom Haatzmaut
In the following piece, tour guide Peter Abelow describes several tourist sites that are ideal to visit to commemorate…
The Jewish State was conceived in dreams—dreams of a glorious past and hopes for an even more glorious future. Only…
Twenty years ago Jewish Action devoted the better part of an issue to analyzing “Israel at Forty.” At the time,…
Almost 2,000 years ago our forebears were uprooted from Judea. Though dispersed and scattered throughout the world, They continuously and…
One of the most hackneyed things one can say about Israel is that it is a land of contrasts, which…
Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day), two consecutive days in May, dramatize both the pain…
The life story of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, is interesting enough on its own, but when told by…
Rabbi Chanan Porat, circa 1988. Photo: Sa’ar Ya’acov/Israel Government Press Office “A ‘Sabbath Jew’ he was—not because he showed his…
View of the reconstructed Kfar Etzion Courtesy of the Kfar Etzion Archives During the months bridging the vote on the…
Personal memories of landmark historical moments. Map of Gush Etzion, 1947: Some twenty kilometers from Jerusalem, nestled between Bethlehem and…
David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, loved the desert. His love went hand in hand with a firm belief that…
