JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
It’s been a year since one of the most harrowing civilian tragedies ever experienced in Israel — the stampede and subsequent “crush” on Mount Meron that killed 45 people celebrating Lag B’Omer. I was standing near the medical clinic of United Hatzalah on Mount Meron as the crush developed. As people attempted to exit one…
The father of three young children killed in a fire likely caused by a menorah does not yet know that they’re dead, the New York Post reported. Yosef Azan, 45, is in critical condition after rushing into his burning house to try and save his children. Firefighters found the bodies of Henrietta, 3, Moshe, 11,…
Terry Tempest Williams is an extraordinary writer. She recently published a memoir inspired by boxes of journals her mother bequeathed to her – all of them blank. There was not a single word on those fresh, white pages. They were, as Williams wrote, “paper tombstones.” That’s what I visualize — paper tombstones — as I…
