Coming from the holiday commemorating our receiving of the Torah, traditionally celebrated with high calorie cheesecake, blintzes and hosts of other dairy fattening foods, the question begs to be…
The Jewish State was conceived in dreams—dreams of a glorious past and hopes for an even more glorious future. Only dreamers, disdainful of reality and inspired
Twenty years ago Jewish Action devoted the better part of an issue to analyzing “Israel at Forty.” At the time, the mood was cautiously optimistic and there was a strong sense of Jewish unity.…
One of the most hackneyed things one can say about Israel is that it is a land of contrasts, which is, perhaps, a polite way of saying that it is a land of contradictions; and that, in turn, may be…
There is no area in Israel that more symbolizes the flow of Jewish history than the Gush Etzion region, situated just fifteen minutes south of Jerusalem. And as Israel prepares to celebrate its…
In the winter of 2001, David Rubin and his three-year-old son Reuven (“Ruby”) were driving on Patriarch’s Road from Jerusalem to their home in Shiloh, the route taken by Abraham and Sarah on their…
The arrival of spring ushers in new, lighter foods. Your taste buds will surely appreciate some of these refreshing spring recipes. Hummus 8 appetizer servings, approximately 14 hors d’oeuvres…
Ask any parent to name the greatest health risk they fear for their children, and most likely the answer will be “cancer.” But in reality, a much more dangerous health risk faces our children today,…
I’ve heard it said that Jewish history can be summed up like this: Someone tried to destroy us,
A little over sixty years ago, more than six million of our people perished during the Holocaust. Many of the survivors, broken in body but extraordinarily resilient in spirit, went on to build the…