by Elyshia Johnson | May 17, 2018 | Newsletters, Reflections from Israel
By Tessy Agassi This week we celebrated Shavuot, my personal favorite holiday of the Jewish year. While the Bible references this holiday as the Festival of First Fruits, on this holiday we also commemorate receiving the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai. In fact, since...
by Kim Troup | May 9, 2017 | Reflections from Israel
Introduction: Mazal Tov! Avital Stern Buchnick, my trusted and wonderful assistant, has given birth to an adorable baby girl. While she is on maternity leave, my neighbor and old friend Shira Schwartz will be writing some of our emails. For those of you who have...
by Kim Troup | May 2, 2017 | News from the Land
by Sondra Oster Baras May 2, 2017 As I write this newsletter I am sitting in front of the television, watching the ongoing documentaries about soldiers who fell in defense of their country, about victims of terror who were murdered because they were Jews living in the...
by Kim Troup | Feb 28, 2017 | Word to the Nations
by Kimberly Troup What about the Palestinians? Don’t they have rights to own land and live in their ancestral homeland? To answer this question, we have to go back in history. The people who are currently called “Palestinian” are not the same people who were called...
by Kim Troup | Aug 2, 2016 | News from the Land
Tuesday August 2, 2016 Summer is raging in Israel. And that is a good thing. I love the summer months. I love the heat, the sun, the warm air enveloping me and reminding me how beautiful this country is. I walk out of my house in the morning and see the sun...
