Those of us who live in the center of the Israel have got only the mildest taste of what our brothers and sisters on the Gaza border have endured for more than a decade. Here are a few short thoughts on “life” as lived in the southern city of Sderot over the last 10 years.

Let the distance not divide us from our commitment to Israel's meaningful existence, to her people, her security, and her future. Share your voice as we express the personal connection to Israel being under fire.

This activity is a fun and easy way to teach kids about coping mechanisms to handle unpleasant experiences that are all too prevalent - such as bullying. Israelis have unfortunately had to hone their coping skills and as a result have become among the most resilient people in the world. We can utilize these skills in our own lives, to successfully handle events great and small!

Have you or has anyone you know ever experienced antisemitism? Are you comfortable talking about what happened? What happened after? How did you/they feel? How did you/they deal with it? These are 5 tips every Jewish teenager should know, to empower themselves to respond to antisemitic bullying.

With Antisemitism as prominent in the world as it is now, people need help dealing with it and making good decisions in the moment. We try our best to respond to the attacks, but in hindsight, we often think, “oh, I should have done/said this.” We’ve put together 5 scenarios for confronting Antisemitism, that will enable you to be empowered, think in the moment, and combat the hate.

Join Israel Forever’s Executive Director Dr. Elana Heideman for a special conversation on Antisemitism, Kristallnacht, the parallels with Jew-hatred today and what we can do about it.

Sunday, November 9th, 1938. In one night of terror, 7000 Jewish businesses and countless homes were attacked and destroyed, 1350 Synagogues burned to the ground throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

On October 27, 2018, my wife was listening to the radio she has next to her bed. What happened that morning jolted her and me up from sleep. She was listening to local coverage of the shootings at the Tree of Life and immediately reacted with shock. That synagogue is one of several in the area and is one which my wife knows well—and she recognized a number of the victims. Although Antisemitism enrages me, it is more personal when it hits in this way. It affects someone I love, and therefore it must affect me.

Every day we are reminded that hatred against Jews is everywhere, and it is spreading. The silence of the world that has not learnt from the history of the Holocaust is deafening. The cancerous hatred that is antisemitism today is rapidly metastasizing while we wonder what more we can do.

Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon explains the historical facts relating to the issue of refugees in the Israeli Palestinian conflict and the case of Jewish refugees who were forced out of their homes in the Arab world, subsequently absorbed by the State of Israel.