This July, thousands of Ethiopian Jews participated in sit-ins, blocking main roads all over Israel with burning tires. More than 100 police officers were injured and more than 136 demonstrators arrested. The immediate catalyst was the death of […]
“Last year, at UC Berkeley, I had the opportunity to ‘dialogue’ with some of the organizers of these [Israel Apartheid Week] events. My perspective is unique, both as the vice consul for Israel in San Francisco, and as […]
Yesterday, I met my friend Esther Wachsman at the movies. We went to see Green Book in Cinema City Jerusalem. Esther lost her soldier son Nachshon who was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists 25 years ago. She […]
Every year when Passover eve arrives, I do my best not to think about that night; to allow the joy of cherished rituals meant to renew our family’s tribal history and faith envelop us in its warm glow […]
If you lived in Israel, then when you went to the supermarket, you could see two beautiful Jewish Ethiopian women in their high headdresses, hugging each other. They would be your check-out girls.If you lived in Israel, then […]
For Israelis, bringing teenage sons and daughters barely out of high school to the army induction center to begin their compulsory military service is one of the most fraught and difficult realities of life. Underlying the cheerful, almost […]
The heartbreaking and shocking tragedy in Pittsburgh has had a particularly harsh effect on me. I send all my friends there my heartfelt condolences.I remember so well being inside the Park Hotel with my family when a hate-filled […]
In the late spring of 1967, I was a 17-year-old high school student about to graduate from the Hebrew Institute of Long Island. But instead of dreams about prom night, what occupied my mind—and I expect those of […]