Shelly Elkayam was the spokesperson in the 1980’s for “East for Peace movement: the Sephardi peace movement. She is writing her PHD dissertation and is a poet. Shelly is a researcher in Kabbalah studies at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv in the Jewish Philosophy Department. She is a Truman research Fellow studying the Inter-Religious […]
Chevra, today, Erev Yom Kippur is another one of those days when I
re-realize why I live here.
The other two special days are in the spring; Yom HaZikeron La Shoa v’
LaGvura and a week later Yom HaZikaron L’ Challai Tzhal, Memorial Day
for/of the Shoa (Holocaust) & Remembrance Day for/of Casualties of the
Israeli Army.
On these three […]
Steve and Yoram discuss the spiritual significance of Jerusalem to the world.
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Yoram takes us on a walking tour on the grounds of the Latrun Monastery interviewing a variety of participants at the event. You can view the photos from the event in our gallery.
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We are entering the year 5768 on the Jewish calendar. The past year has been another troubled and disturbing period in human history. In the Jewish world topics of importance seems to have been Israel, assimilation, anti-Semitism, Iraq war and Iran.
In Israel major concerns have been Palestinian Terror, Peace, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas and the […]
I was very pleased to find in Haaretz, the two opinion articles dealing with the subject of trading territory in Israel populated by Arab citizens of Israel, for the land on which there are large Israeli settlements that lie within Judea & Samaria (“The Territorias”).
The idea that we would trade to a Palestinian state lands […]