(Photo: Artem Dolgopyat (L) President Isaac Herzog (C) and Linoy Ashram (R) with their Olympic gold medals at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, August 16, 2021. Photo credit: Itay Beit-On/GPO)… Continue reading Israel Year in Review
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They’re here! Meet Detroit’s 2021-22 Shinshinim.
The Ethiopian National Project is helps bridge educational and cultural gaps for Ethiopian-Israeli youth.
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While many Detroiters were crucial in the development of Israel, the life-altering journey of two men, Louis Berry and Joseph Holtzman, remain a legend to this day.
For Alex Wineman, deciding to go back to Israel was never a question of yes or no. It was a question of when.
Born in Jerusalem, son of former Israeli emissaries who served in the U.S; raised in the Israeli Youth Movement; nine years a pilot and flight instructor in the Israeli Air Force; eight years a high school teacher and mentor for youth-at-risk in Tel Aviv; an educator with a Master’s of Philosophy; what better creds for our emissary from Israel, Yiftah Leket?
“You just need to get up and go,” my beloved grandfather, Dr. Jerry Rosenberg, told me as I vacillated about when would be the right time to begin my life in Israel.
During the difficult crisis of COVID-19, about a million Israelis became unemployed and were thrust into a time of uncertainty.
