Eighty years after liberation, both the anguish and the resilience live on “What’s amazing is how, despite these horrendous losses, they just got up and started all over again; there’s so much we can learn from that,” says Yael Richler-Friedman, who directs education for Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Deborah Fineblum Jan. 22, 2025
Around the world for the eight nights of the ‘Festival of Lights’ From Tunis, Ethiopia and Holon to Los Angeles and New York, the makings of an oil-rich, taste-tingling Chanukah that touches on many Jewish traditions. Deborah Fineblum Dec. 16, 2024
Helping Israel’s children through this war “After so many rounds of rockets and having to run into the shelter, you learn to see the underlying symptoms in each child.” Deborah Fineblum Nov. 8, 2024
Bubbe and Zayde: Now’s the time to teach ‘di kinder’ a thing or two “My grandparents rubbed a Jewish life off on me, and I’m hoping to rub it off on my grandkids,” says 68-year-old Josh Engman. Deborah Fineblum Oct. 16, 2024
Sukkah of a different kind: Pajama party in the bomb shelter If there’s one thing Israelis are famous for, it is refusing to wallow in worry, insisting instead on choosing life. Deborah Fineblum Oct. 15, 2024
Never a better time to serve Since the war on multiple fronts began in October, American volunteers of all ages have traveled to Israel to offer a little elbow grease while soldiers and reservists are at the front. Deborah Fineblum Sept. 20, 2024
Living a double life in times of war: Challenges faced by Israeli reservists It is a balancing act, to be sure. It’s the military front versus the home front. Monitoring terror tunnels and the kids’ doctor appointments. Deborah Fineblum Aug. 21, 2024
Moving from ‘I probably won’t’ to ‘I do’: Getting millennials to the ‘chuppah’ “I’d have to call no-marriage the silent killer,” says media matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom. “No marriage, no kids—it’s tough on the Jewish future.” Deborah Fineblum Aug. 15, 2024
Upping our game in Israel The fight for survival brings out the best in our people, who step up to the plate time and again to help their fellow citizens, their fellow Jews, yearn to make this nation thrive. Deborah Fineblum July 30, 2024