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Digging Wells for Generations

Two Israelis were stabbed last week, Israeli military and police response has continued, and leaders within Fatah have begun talking ...

Leah Goldberg, Me, and the Search for a Title for my New Book

There’s a Jewish story you may know that includes the refrain: “You never know.” In one section of it, a ...

Is History a Prison or a Home?

In 1951 my family left the region in which they had lived since Nebuchadnezzar II took a bunch of Jews ...

A Contemporary Story Of Redemption

“My father was a wandering Aramean.” With this quote, from Deuteronomy 26:5, we begin not only the Maggid (story-telling) portion ...