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The “Garden of the Twenty” in Netiv HaAsara, nestles “peacefully” between two 10-meter high concrete walls, features 20 olive trees and a massive Israeli flag, purportedly the biggest in the country. Each tree memorializes one of the…

The Quiet from NASA: When Silence Becomes the Story.

Three weeks…

Today, on the Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, I want to take a moment to honor someone who left a lasting impression on me: the American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and government official Ruth Gruber, born in…

If We Don’t Act Soon, The Once In A 1000 Lifetimes’ Chance For Everlasting Peace Can Slip Away

Every week that passes without an operational International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza tightens the grip of chaos. Diplomats keep…

Thirty years ago, on a Saturday night in early November 1995, I was a 14-year-old kid in the American Midwest. The TV was on in my bedroom — a boxy 19 inch Sharp brand television. The…

The “woke right” are the mirror image of their “woke left” counterparts; both extremist groups are comprised of dyed-in-the-wool Jew haters. Although those two radical groups despise each other, they do have a common enemy – the…

Next to the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, Israel still maintains a small presence in Lebanon; in Syria, it controls the buffer zone and remains there to this day. And Syria, especially, remains an incredibly tense situation that could escalate…

When Hurricane Milton devastated Jamaica this this past week, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, and leaving…

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL

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The Travelogue of R. Chaim Yosef David Azulai:
A Window into the 18th Century Jewish World

The Ma’agal Tov of R. Chaim Yosef David Azulai represents a remarkable fusion of personal memoir, scholarly…