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Tucked between Moshe’s falafel stand and Eli’s makolet (small grocery store) on Prophets Street is a little bakery. Each Friday morning without fail, I make my way to this bakery and buy a loaf of challah from Ronnie for our Shabbat dinner. It is one of the special moments of my week. Ronnie always greets
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I have seen everything that’s happening today before. I have lived through these times before. And I know where they lead. I was born in 1924 in Karlsruhe, Germany. As a child, I witnessed Hitler’s rise to power, which began around the time I was nine years old. For the first three years of school,
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Israel is known as a startup nation and a powerhouse of technological and military ingenuity. In recent years, a quieter yet equally revolutionary transformation has been taking place: the rise of women to leadership roles in fields critical to Israel’s security and innovation. From elite units in the IDF to groundbreaking tech startups and government
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“Allahu akbar!” These are often the first words to pierce the subconscious minds of many Jerusalemites in the predawn darkness. They’re not alone. The adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, rings out like clockwork every morning from countless minarets, the thin towers pointing heavenward like green fingers over mosques across cities worldwide. The call stirs
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What if you could witness Christian generosity in action, transforming lives in Israel? Recently, during a visit to Neve Landy, a home for troubled boys, I had the opportunity to do just that. Neve Landy is unique in its model, mission and the lives it changes. Let me share this extraordinary place in southern Israel
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I found myself sitting on an old couch, eating pierogi (Russian dumplings), listening to the life story of an elderly woman and her husband. They were real. Now, that might sound like a strange statement, but for a young American adult fresh out her teenage years, the Holocaust and its survivors used to be confined
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The Year is AD 135… Jerusalem lies under the iron grip of the infamous Roman Emperor Hadrian. As the age-old Bible stories recount, the Romans ruled the Promised Land with ruthless cruelty, seeking to extinguish the Jewish light from their Empire. Yet a remarkable archaeological discovery has proven that Jewish faith endured despite the oppression.
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Thirteen years after the opening shots of the Syrian Civil War rang out on March 15, 2011, the devastating conflict came to an abrupt finale—against all odds and all in just over a week. Damascus fell to a coalition of rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on December 8, 2024,
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My first encounter with an officer of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was in 1985 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, home of the US Army Field Artillery. Assigned there for the Officers Advanced Course, I was privileged to sponsor one of the allied nation officers in attendance: Captain Nir Granot from Tel Aviv. My wife and
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On the night of November 6, 2024, Maccabi Tel Aviv football club fans left the stadium in Amsterdam after a match between the Israeli team and the local team, Ajax. They flooded into the streets to find what the city’s mayor described as “antisemitic hit-and-run squads” waiting. Multiple gangs of rioters screaming “Free Palestine,” many
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