by Kim Troup | Jun 15, 2018 | Reflections from Israel
By: Tessy Agassi Four years ago this week, I lost my most beloved grandmother, my Bubbe. The reason I am sharing this somewhat old information with you is because she had a great impact on my life and I can feel her spirit guiding my every step. To know her and my...
by Elyshia Johnson | Apr 17, 2018 | Reflections from Israel
By: Avital Stern-Buchnick This Thursday marks seventy years since Israel was declared an independent Jewish state! To me, seventy years seems like a pretty long time ago, but I’m sure that for some May 15, 1948 doesn’t seem that far away. Some of you might even...
by Kim Troup | Feb 5, 2018 | News from the Land
Coping With Terrorism: We MUST Stay Strong News Flash — the worst kind of news there is. A young man, 29 years old, a husband and father of 4 children was murdered today by an Arab terrorist. His name was Itamar Ben-Gal. He was a high-school teacher...
by Kim Troup | Jan 22, 2018 | Reflections from Israel
By: Avital Stern-Buchnick Tuesday, January 9, 2018 Aliyah’s story begins five years before she was born. Her parents, Avital and Michael Ezer were a young newly married couple in Soviet Russia. They were respected researchers in their fields and had big plans for the...
by Kim Troup | Jul 10, 2012 | News from the Land
Yesterday was a fast day, the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, which ushers in a 3-week mourning period for the first and second temples, thousands of years ago. Our sages have long laid the blame for the destruction of the Second Temple and the subsequent exile...
