June 2021

June 18, 2021 A gold standard for aliyah’ Zionism in the face of Israel-hatred today By Barbara Sofer The answer isn’t obvious.I know folks who grew up without knowing who Theodor Herzl or David Ben-Gurion are, who didn’t know the difference between Tu B’shvat and Lag B’omer (and didn’t care), who came to Israel on […]

June 4, 2021 Taglit-Birthright Israel is back and just in time By Barbara Sofer Over the past two decades, more than 750,000 young Jews from 68 countries have toured Israel under the auspices of Birthright Israel. We locals got used to seeing the Birthright Israel buses traveling around the country, carrying ebullient university students on their