Click here to partner with Bat Ayin I traveled to the beautiful Judean Hills to visit Bat Ayin, a small, very spiritual community located among the rugged hills just outside Gush Etzion. This community was established with one goal in mind: to create a purely God-centered life in a natural environment, away from the hustle […]

Community at a Glance gives you the chance to visit communities in Judea and Samaria, from the comfort of your home, and catch a glimpse of life in each and every community. I first visited Alei Zahav more than 20 years ago.  It was a small, rather sleepy, community, populated almost entirely by secular Jews.  […]

Zionism was traditionally a Jewish issue.  Beginning in the mid-19th century, Jews began to explore the idea of a modern return to the Land of Israel before Messiah’s arrival.  Theodore Herzl founded the Zionist movement which acted politically to advance the idea of a modern Jewish state in the Land of Israel.  Jews who advocated […]

Passover is one of the most loved and celebrated holidays in the Jewish faith. Easter is a particularly holy day for Christians as they celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But are these holidays connected in any way? They always fall very close to each other on the calendar – is that a coincidence?

A visit to Einav today is a visit to a beautiful area of Samaria with young people who have recently joined the community alongside the old-timers, all proud of the jewel they have created in the center of Biblical Israel.

Click here to partner with Einav I was supposed to go to Einav on Tu B’Shvat and film their tree-planting ceremony, sponsored by you, our CFOIC Heartland donors and friends.  But then Israel was plunged into lockdown and my visit had to be cancelled.  So when life opened up again, I took the first opportunity […]

In Gevaot, special needs children and young adults are not only accepted as they are, regardless of their needs; they are celebrated!

A Visit with Shmuel, where I virtually bring you to new communities in Judea and Samaria and share their unique character.

Sondra, Tommy, and Kim all discuss their feelings about the Holocaust. Sondra shares personal stories from her family.

Next week is Tu B’Shvat, the “New Year of the Trees”.  It is day where we celebrate the fruit of our trees and children and adults alike take the time on that day to go out and plant trees.  Israel is the only country in the world that had more trees at the end of the 20th century than it did at the beginning, and that is because planting trees has been a key Zionist enterprise, long before it became ecologically popular.