Israel’s secret weapon, Golda Meir once said, is that “we have no place else to go.” But there’s another tool in our arsenal: community.

At 9:30 A.M., we were trying to figure out how to lift her 45-pound body, which lay outside the claw-marked wooden front door. It was

In the 1980s, in my late twenties, I was studying in a yeshiva for young women who had no religious education. Newly arrived in Israel,

We were going on vacation—me and Eliana, my 18-year-old daughter, and my friend Shira and her 18-year-old daughter, Ruthie. It would be a gift to

Judaism is a religion for adults—it requires a lot of work and thinking. Purim though, is different: It’s a letting go. We wear costumes, have

When changing from an American to an Israeli diet, it is often the children who lead the way, switching from macaroni and cheese to hummus,

Israel may be a small country, but thousands of birds annually take advantage of its passage-friendly flyway and the welcoming sanctuaries that dot the country.

Short on water, long on inspiration, know-how and hard work, Israel has created beautiful gardens that exude a magical, quiet peace. You can wander self-guided