Keeping Israel In Your Art

By Heidi Krizer Daroff on 05/23/2013 @ 03:06 AM

Tags: Leila Fine Gifts Jewels, Israel Art, Plant Israel, Israel Plant, Jewish Art, Plant Israel at Home

Connecting with Israel through art is visible throughout Leila Fine Gifts & Jewels. Visit Deb Shalom in order to Plant Israel at Home™ and to keep up with unique Israeli art selections!

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Why I Stand With Israel

Posted on 05/20/2013 @ 03:33 AM

Tags: Denmark, Supporting Israel, Christians for Israel, Anti-Semitism for Jews

Being in Israel is like traveling inside the pages of the Bible. I can’t explain it, you have to experience it yourself!

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From Darkness Into Light: The Promise Of Israel

Posted on 05/17/2013 @ 03:03 AM

Tags: Young Adult March Of The Living, Holocaust Education, Israel El AL airline, Concentration Camps in Poland

Like my ancestors before me wandering the Egyptian desert, while I was in Poland, the promise of Israel gave me hope and sustained me.

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Milk And Honey: A Celebration of Israel on Shavuot

By Elana Heideman on 05/13/2013 @ 08:58 AM

Tags: Shavuot, Israel Holiday, Jewish Holiday, Land of Milk and Honey, Shavuot Recipes, Jewish Food, Israeli Food

Shavuot has arrived! Throughout Israel, communities hold celebration festivals with dancing, songs, and harvesting activities. And of course - they eat cheesecake!

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A Mother's Request

By Heidi Krizer Daroff on 05/12/2013 @ 03:54 AM

Tags: Jewish Identity, Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memory in Israel, Yom HaShoah, American Jew

I found myself overlooking one of the most beautiful spots on earth, the hills of Jerusalem. I was overcome by the beauty and the depths of the meaningfulness of the moment.

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Shotgun Bat Mitzvah

Posted on 05/10/2013 @ 03:26 AM

Tags: Bat Mitzvah, Jewish Identity, BBYO, Jewish History, Jewish Holidays, Catechism

I've spent the majority of my life so far treating Judaism with a nonchalant attitude. But here I am, eighteen years old and partaking in a Bat Mitzvah ceremony that usually happens when you turn thirteen.

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J Is For Jerusalem

Posted on 05/08/2013 @ 04:21 PM

Tags: Jerusalem, Kelly Hartog, You Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, Food in Israel

Israel has my heart and my entire immediate family still lives in Israel. But I would say – unequivocally – that Jerusalem has my soul.

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Culinary Comforts On Yom Yerushalayim

Posted on 05/06/2013 @ 05:22 AM

Tags: Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, Jerusalem Artichoke, Israeli Food

I can never eat a Jerusalem artichoke without thinking of Jerusalem, especially on Yom Yerushalayim when we celebrate our beloved holy city.

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Yom Yerushalayim: The Reunification of A People And A Past

By Elana Heideman and Anat Goldberg on 05/03/2013 @ 04:00 AM

Tags: Jerusalem, Yom Yerushalayim, Reunification of Jerusalem, History of Israel, Six Day War, Jewish heritage, Western Wall, IDF

More than 3000 years after King David sanctified it as the capital of Israel and the city of the Temple, Jerusalem was united and once again restored as the capital of the Jewish homeland. Join us as we celebrate the reunification of the Jewish people and our beloved holy city on Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day.

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Inventing Myself As A Jew

Posted on 05/01/2013 @ 04:15 AM

Tags: Navajo Reservation, Jewish History, History of Israel, Jewish Identity, Entebbe Raid, Lone Soldier in IDF

Shabbat under a Judean Desert - I felt myself for the first time to be a living link in the generations of the Jewish people.

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Home, Identity and Connection

Posted on 04/29/2013 @ 08:34 AM

Tags: Israel, Jerusalem Open Market, United States, Travel to Israel

I am an Israeli in the United States and an American in Israel. Which place is really home?

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The Israel Lag B'Omer Experience

Posted on 04/27/2013 @ 06:16 AM

Tags: Lag Ba'omer, Jewish Holiday, History of Israel, Israel holiday traditions

Lag B'Omer in Israel: With songs and laughter, we celebrate the triumph of Bar Kochba and Bar Yochai with celebrations, roasting marshmallows, potatoes and dancing around the fires!

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Lag B'Omer: Fires Of The Jewish Spirit

By Elana Heideman on 04/26/2013 @ 02:30 AM

Tags: lag b'omer, israel history, jewish holiday, jewish tradition, Bar kochba

Throughout Israel, fires are about to be kindled in celebration of the fighting spirit of Bar Kochba's revolt against the Romans, of the single day on which Rabbi Akiva's 24,000 students did not die, and in memory of the great Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.

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Sweet Home Alabama

Posted on 04/23/2013 @ 07:20 AM

Tags: Alabama, Jewish heritage, connection, Israel Love, Jewish community

Even from the deep sweet south, love for Israel grows! Jamie Brooks shares her personal connection as a Virtual Citizen of Israel.

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Transformation In Poland

Posted on 04/21/2013 @ 05:07 PM

Tags: Holocaust memory in Israel, March of The Living, Jewish Community in Toronto, Jewish History

We, as Jews, will always have a home in Israel. We will be accepted and welcomed, and this was a goal for which our ancestors fought so hard to accomplish.

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The Fight for a Legacy: Jewish Resistance in Warsaw

Posted on 04/18/2013 @ 09:42 AM

Tags: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jewish resistance, Holocaust

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first attempt to resist the Nazi onslaught and their attempt to annihilate the Jewish people. The details of its history are a legacy to be remembered as we RAISE OUR FLAG in memory.

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Virtual Citizens of Israel™, March of The Living and Yom Ha'Atzmaut

Posted on 04/15/2013 @ 07:30 PM

Tags: Virtual Citizen of Israel, March of the Living, Yom Haatzmaut, Israel Independence Day, Holocaust, Israel Forever, Israel Foundation

On this Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Israel's 65th Birthday, The Israel Forever Foundation welcomes participants of the March of the Living 2013 as Virtual Citizens of Israel™!

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Memory Of Our Fallen: A Nation Unites

Posted on 04/14/2013 @ 12:00 PM

Every year, as Yom HaZikaron arrives, native Israelis and those who moved here from the four corners of the world, unite in memory of the fallen soldiers of Israel.

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RAISE YOUR FLAG: 70 Years Since The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, A Global Commemoration

Posted on 04/09/2013 @ 03:46 AM

Tags: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Holocaust Memory, commemoration in Israel, Israel Flag

Join us in waving the Israeli Flag with pride to mark 70 years since the onset of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising!

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Israeli Zeal

By David Besnainou on 04/05/2013 @ 03:15 AM

Tags: Lone Soldier Project, Israel startup nation, Lone Soldiers in IDF, Rock and Roll Half-Marathon

Lone Soldiers epitomize the Israeli startup culture and their untamed zeal challenges them to defy conventions and propels them to greater heights. Learn why!

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