April 25, 2025 Independence Day 2025: 77+1 reasons I love Israel – opinion By Barbara Sofer 78 reasons I love Israel The Ayalon Mall shut down to allow the five returned hostage young women to shop in privacy. When the lifeguard at Gordon Beach in Tel Aviv heard that four hostages were rescued in Gaza, he […]
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April 18, 2025 Shuki’s message: A Druze soldier’s story and a Passover journey – opinion By Barbara Sofer In the days leading up to Passover, I find myself thinking of a message I heard within the words of a young Druze soldier. Shuki lives in a mountaintop home in the village of Beit Jann, overlooking
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April 4, 2025 The sounds of young Zionism: Listening to the International Jewish Teen Choir – opinion By Barbara Sofer I give in to an impulse to fly to the United States. My granddaughter Shani, 14, is singing in HaZamir: The International Jewish Teen Choir, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She’s not a soloist. There
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