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August 25, 2023 Ostia: Home to one of the greatest centers of post-Temple Jewry – opinion By Barbara Sofer A quiz from a recent edition of the Lubavitch movement’s premier publication Lubavitch International: After the destruction of the Second Temple, Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai famously established the new Jewish center in the Yeshiva (Academy) of Yavne. At

August 11, 2023 ‘Oppenheimer’: How Jewish refugees beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb – opinion By Barbara Sofer Many Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany would work on the Manhattan Project. They knew how important it was to beat Hitler to getting nuclear bombs first. An intelligent and sensitive friend asked me recently if

July 28, 2023 Do more people love Israel than we think? – opinion By Barbara Sofer My Uber driver has arrived minutes after I put in the order. She rushes out of the van to help me with my suitcase. “I was already on my way home for the day,” she says. “I live by

July 14, 2023 Leo Frank and ‘Parade’: When theater and reality overlap – opinion By Barbara Sofer I was in Manhattan as New York celebrated the Fourth of July with fireworks over the East River, together with tens of thousands of New Yorkers and tourists, representing the plethora of ethnicities and languages in New York.

June 29, 2023 Survivors of terror attacks reunite – opinion By Barbara Sofer Sarri Singer had never been in Israel on the anniversary of “The Day.” Still, a 20-year anniversary cannot be ignored. So Singer is in Jerusalem with her mom Judie Bloom Singer to mark the day she came so close to death. June

June 16, 2023 Sherrill Kaye leads other immigrant women for Israel’s Sea to Sea hike – opinion By Barbara Sofer On the fourth day, the guide offered the hikers a shortcut. They could skip the steep, rocky descent to the Amud stream marked “for experienced hikers.” That would, however, mean they would miss out on

June 2, 2023 Sagui Gavri: The heart healer from Kibbutz Nir Am – opinion By Barbara Sofer I ask him to write this story himself, but he waves it away. He’s busy treating children, doing research and writing medical papers. But after the ceasefire of our most recent confrontation with Gaza, the one called Shield

May 19, 2023 A Zionist message from the rainforest – opinion By Barbara Sofer Look carefully and you’ll see the black numbers 88 on each of the white hind wings of the Diaethria anna butterfly, also known as Anna’s eighty-eight. The coati, a member of the raccoon family, digs for food in the thick underbrush.

April 7, 2023 Stop – don’t throw out your jeans! Here’s why By Barbara Sofer Nearly everyone on the airplane from Israel to Milan is wearing jeans. Not a surprise. Over two billion pairs of jeans are sold worldwide every year, with the demand always rising. Jeans have come a long way since May 20,

March 30, 2023 Women need to be heard in the ‘man’s world’ of tech – opinion By Barbara Sofer I’m still musing over last month’s 2023 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit.First, the abundant good news. The summit is back in full force after the years of the pandemic. On February 15, it filled the Jerusalem International