View Slideshow Yom Ha’atzmaut is here and Israel is celebrating 60 years – 60 years of growth, of change, of tears and joy, destruction and rebuilding; 60 years of hope. A number of photographers were asked to submit photos which for them, capture the essence of Israel. Kevin Unger gives a broad and encompassing view. [...]
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20 Things I Love About Israel
1. Being able to speak to G-d on a local call. There is simply no place in the world, with the palpable sanctity of the Kotel, Home of G-d. 2. The fact that Israel, like G-d, gives the Right of Return to all Jews regardless of background, denomination, race, ethnicity, or economic strata. 3. The [...]
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From Ruin to Renewal
The period of time beginning the second night of Pesach and climaxing forty-nine full days later with the Festival of Shavuot can be called a time of “Ruin and Renewal” for the Jewish People.
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This – My Land, My People, My State
Yaffa Ganz © 2006 There are those who say the present state of the Israeli State is not enough. Enough? I say. Nothing man has is ever enough. There are those who say that patriotism for the Jewish State is not eminently respectable nowadays. Faulty, unstable, imperfect, this is not the State we hoped for. [...]
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