Orit Arfa
Celebs Stick to Their Tzedakah Box Job
Frankie Muniz, star of the TV show, \”Malcolm in the Middle,\” had little idea what he was making as he glued colored cotton balls and beads onto a metallic container with a slot on top.
Tsfat Nourishes the Spiritually Hungry
As I climbed the green Galilean hills of Tsfat to reach the family hosting me for Shabbat, I wondered how it had changed since the last time I was in Israel\’s mystical city.
End of Sanity
Gush is one of the sanest places in Israel I had ever visited. The people are healthy and happy. They love life and they love Israel.
Laser Heart Surgery
My only decent pair of glasses broke en route from Los Angeles to Israel, and I took it as a sign — it was time to for corrective laser surgery, a.k.a. LASIK.
\”Make sure on the day of surgery someone comes with you,\” the Israeli receptionist said to me after I set my appointment.
Great. Who would I call on to come with me? If I lived in Los Angeles, someone in my family would have shepherded me. But I wasn\’t comfortable asking my family in Israel to escort me.
A Traveler’s Guide to Tel Aviv Nightlife
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but life in Tel Aviv begins at midnight. There are dozens of nightclubs and about 200 bars in this mini-metropolis, each with its own flavor and theme. Yet they all share a determination and dedication to having a good time.
Enemy Ties
I thought about the implications: I take this tie, and my hands are tied. I\’d forever have to remember that one night a Palestinian gave me an expensive tie, and that he was nice to me. I\’d have to question all my stereotypes and generalizations, and recognize that there are good, normal, generous Palestinians who just want peace, who just want to be my friend, who just want some fun.
Israel Morals Match Rand Ideology
Through lectures at university campuses across the United States, television and radio interviews, editorials and now a newsletter on their Web site, the Ayn Rand Institute seeks to influence public opinion, and particularly American policy, toward unequivocally siding with Israel.
In the Name of Love
I was looking through my closet this morning for a spring outfit to match the warmer weather, and I found his T-shirt. It\’s a red T-shirt with the Fox label — Israel\’s closest version of the Gap.
A Place to Call Home
On his first day of work in 1985 as executive director of the Hillel Foundation at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Rabbi Stephen Cohen received a telling welcome.
Cohen, a former New Yorker, stepped off the plane and took a cab straight to the University Religion Center (URC), where the offices of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life are housed. A social worker, prompted by the rabbi\’s forlorn and scruffy look, invited him to take part in that day\’s breakfast program for the homeless.
Cohen, 28 at the time, laughed and explained his position.
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