Scouting for Israelis
September 16, 2011
Shevet Chen, the San Fernando Valley chapter of the Israeli Scout movement, is proving that scouting is good for Israel, particularly here in the United States.
Dikla Kadosh
Design yourself
September 16, 2011
I was inspired to create a fashion issue because I look at personal style as a shortcut to becoming whoever I want to be.
Good kavanot
August 19, 2011
The Hebrew word kavanot doesn’t have a direct translation to English, even though English is a far richer language: it beats Hebrew 250,000 words to 80,000.
Holistic by chance
July 22, 2011
Acupuncture terrifies me. Dozens of needles puncturing your skin looks more like ancient torture than ancient healing.
The Joshua Project [VIDEO]
May 19, 2011
“Mommy, can I have some water?” asked Joshua Goldenberg, a 7-year-old with a beautiful mane of curls and a gap-tooth smile. His mother, Christie, handed him a bottle. “How do you know it’s water?” he asked. “Because it says so on the label,” she answered.
Israelis R Us
April 25, 2011
I wasn’t always as proud to be Israeli as I am today. I never hid that I was born in Israel — not that I could, with a name like mine. And I wasn’t embarrassed by my mom’s harsh Israeli accent, because she didn’t have one — she spent the first 10 years of her life in New York. I didn’t have to eat my school lunches surreptitiously. My sandwiches looked like everyone else’s.
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