What Israelis and Diaspora Jews get wrong about each other As a new immigrant to Israel, I keep being asked: why move here now? The answer says as much about the Diaspora as it does about Israeli life.
Yom HaPlitim: How one day honors a million displaced Jews Around a million Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews were expelled from Arab countries after 1947. Yom HaPlitim reclaims this forgotten refugee story.
From the sausage aliyah to pumpkin spice olim: How two generations of post-Soviet Jews made Israel home In Israel’s cultural “solyanka,” post-Soviet aliyah spans generations — from those who rebuilt in the 1990s to today’s newcomers facing new fears and freedoms.
Aliyah explained: How Jewish immigration built modern Israel From Yemen to Moscow, waves of aliyah shaped Israel into a nation of languages, traditions, and resilience.
Echoes of the Iron Curtain: Reflecting on my Soviet Jewish diaspora identity As a first generation Israeli-American with parents from the USSR, I’m being strikingly honest when I tell my friends I have no clue who I am.
The Jews of the Wild West Their stories embody traits of perseverance, grit, and the determination to maintain one’s identity in a strange land.
Is Ken Burns right that the U.S. was silent during the Holocaust? Americans during the Holocaust knew what was going on, and the government’s response was still simply inadequate.
