Over the past few years, a confluence of events has lead to a very real day school tuition crisis. Parents are asking for financial aid, students are leaving day school for public education and donors are not able to meet their pledges.
he Jewish people have a long history of persecution and victimization. Our sufferings as a people have undeniably shaped who we are as individuals and as a people today. Throughout the world, people are still being silenced and exterminated, just as millions of us were in Europe 65 years ago.
On July 25, 2006, Hamas terrorists penetrated into Israeli territory through an underground tunnel that runs from the Gaza town of Rafah to Kibbutz Kerem Shalom.
Someone would probably be labeled a hippie if he or she were to use the English word “peace” as a greeting or an expression when parting. Yet in Hebrew, the standard “hello” or “goodbye” is shalom (peace), and the word carries no modern cultural or political connotation.
One of the first people I met when I started working at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot in 1962, as head of its press office, was Ephraim Katzir.
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