\”I wish I had 10 percent of the success with the Israeli government as I have with private donors,\” sighed Moshe Kaveh, the president of Bar-Ilan University.
Birthright\’s success in awakening a connection to Jewish heritage and Israel is unprecedented in American Jewish life. The number of alumni continues to multiply and their enthusiasm is infusing new energy into American Jewry
Natan Sharansky\’s previous book, \”The Case for Democracy,\” changed the world. It inspired a generation of U.S. policymakers and influenced President George\nW. Bush in his decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein. So when Sharansky\’s second book, \”Defending Identity,\” came out this month, I thought I\’d better read it, quick
Whether it is the imprint of the Israel Defense Forces\’ unit cohesion, the Jewish sense of a shared destiny or the remnants of a socialist system, Israelis strongly — and genuinely — care about each other. It\’s simply lovely to know there is always someone who\’ll be there to help you out and that you\’re never truly alone
Levey\’s experiences are so amusing, the uninitiated might think he made them up. As anyone who has spent considerable time in Israel knows, though, he didn\’t need to. Levey\’s cast of characters merely exemplifies the saying, \”Jews are just like other people — only more so.\”
Spurred by skyrocketing oil prices and growing interest in energy alternatives, a wave of new companies and investors are scouting out new clean technologies in Israel.
Video headlines from Israel 2008-07-14: Olmert and Assad in Paris, prisoner swap Wednesday
While the French-initiated summit for the Union for the Mediterranean did not produce any major breakthroughs, French President Nicolas Sarkozy did recognize one achievement: every Arab country but *Libya sitting down with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
In the Israeli film \”My Father My Lord,\” the secular or casually religious Jew encounters a world whose mindset and lifestyle might as well be thousands of miles and centuries away. It is the world of the charedi, or ultra-Orthodox, community, in which every action, every thought, is determined by God\’s law, as elucidated by the sages.
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