Making the choice that an aging parent is ready for a senior living facility is not easy. Finding the right place to call their new home can be even harder.
The after-school homework help program at the Mercaz Kagan community center in Katamon Tet, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Jerusalem, buzzes with activity, thanks in part to the Skilled Volunteers for Israel program.
When I was learning Hebrew, I asked an Israeli friend the word for “optimistic.”
The Women of the Wall group vowed to continue reading from the Torah in the women’s section of the Kotel in the wake of a report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Charedi Orthodox parties that it still would not be allowed.
Ayoob Kara, a deputy Israeli cabinet minister, used to double as an unofficial intermediary with the few of his fellow Arab citizens who have left to join Islamic State insurgents in Syria or Iraq.
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