Born in Germany in 1929, Dr. Lasch fled with his family to Palestine in 1936. Following his medical training in Switzerland, Israel and the USA, where he specialized in pediatrics and public health, he spent three years in West Africa developing systems of child care where none had previously existed. After his return home he […]
Not for the first time, but yet again, I hear about the difficulties
that Hillel, the Jewish university campus organization is having dealing
with the anti-Israel sentiments on American campuses.
The latest issue concerns an invitation to the chancellor of the
University of California Irvine, Michael Drake to a Hillel three-day
summit titled “Imagining a More Civil Society” . Evidently […]
Through The Holistic Haggadah, Dr. Michael Kagan shares his teachings and approach to holistic Judaism that he has developed through experiential workshops and lectures in Israel and around the world. Originally from Britain he moved to Jerusalem in 1977, has a PhD in Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is married to Rabbi Ruth […]
DAVID BEDEIN
MARCH 20TH, 2008
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL
AVRAHAM DAVID MOSES: ONE OF THE BOYS MURDERED 14 DAYS AGO
It’s been 14 days since an Arab terrorist from Jerusalem sprayed more than 500 bullets into the library of Jerusalem’s finest yeshiva and mowed down 8 young men while they were learning Talumd at the Rabbi Kook […]
Photos by Gadi Dagon
Yair Vardi
The Suzanne Dellal Center
On my first day touring the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in
October, faculty member Vered Aviv introduced me to Yair Vardi and
suggested that I meet with him to get a unique, thorough perspective
on Israeli contemporary dance. It was an excellent suggestion: when
it comes to this topic, […]