February 26, 2023 This hotel in Tel Aviv brings the old and the new together By Barbara Sofer ‘Tel Aviv” comes from the name of Theodore Herzl’s Altneuland, literally “old-new land.” The Assemblage Boutique Hotel in the heart of Tel Aviv resonates inside and out with that city’s theme. The hotel stands inconspicuously at 48 […]
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February 24, 2023 Why was Israel eager to help save lives in Turkey? – opinion By Barbara Sofer Dr. Itai Basel reaches for his cellphone to show me photos. Not of his own three beautiful children or the very sick children he takes care of in the intensive care unit in Hadassah Mount Scopus. These
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February 10, 2023 A return to Club J: A winter in the French Alps with Israelis – opinion By Barbara Sofer The African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided some 35 million years ago to form the 12,000-kilometer-long mountain range called the Alps. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch reputedly said, “When I shall stand before God, the
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