Yesterday, Neta Lavi came “home” to her wider “family” of friends, the Old City youth and the general Ateret Cohanim community. Yesterday, Neta and her family saw the empathy, the resilience, the strength and the power of the youth…
When walking down Hagai Street these days, the tension is palpable. Most people see the area as historically Muslim, but Hagai Street running North South to Sha’ar Shechem (Damascus Gate) had bustling Jewish population until the 1929 and 1936…
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Very early Thursday morning…a few hours ago (TO AVOID UNNECESSARY FRICTION WITH SOME OF THE LOCAL ARABS DURING THE DAY) Jewish families and Yeshiva students entered a large premises, which is located in the old Yemenite Hekdesh in the…
Revolutions come when a populace has lost the ability to make necessary change through ordinary means. Israelis from all spectrums of society feel they live in a country that has gone mad. Prices are too high, wages are too…
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984 When the Palmach fighters won control of the State from the Irgun and Lehi, a white washing of history and rewriting…
Why is Jerusalem such a conflicted place when it comes to our national direction? There is this feeling and has been since 1967 that if we just give on something then we will reach acceptance with our neighbors and…