Tisha B’Av and Eid el-Adha on the Temple Mount

This year Eid el Adha and Tisha B’Av fell on the same day. In any other place in the world, this need not be relevant. But Israel makes the spiritual, material. Our return to the Land of Israel has reasserted the place of Place in our worship. How can we better negotiate time and space, memories and place, people and land?

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To Be – under threat of annihilation, or defeat?

When the United States sneezes, the whole world catches the flu. While the decision of President Trump to withdraw US troops from Syria has led to political headlines and speculation in DC, it has put many in our area in fear for their lives. How should we respond to a sworn enemy that aims for our annihilation?

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50 years since the Six Days War – Educational Materials for you

Here is a gathering of Makom materials for your free use, to address different aspects of the 50th year since the Six Days War. Both the reunification of Jerusalem, and the control over Judea and Samaria, have reached half a century.

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President Trump versus the Balfour Declaration?

President Trump will become the first American president to visit the Kotel, the Western Wall. But in so doing President Trump’s advance staff have pointed out an inconvenient truth: The Kotel is on the “other” side of the Green Line. As such, it is not within Israel’s internationally recognized borders.

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Yad LaKashish’s Approach

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Elderly People at the Margins

 

This very moment, hundreds of elderly olim are desperately lonely, with no real reason to get up in the morning. They have nowhere to go, little family who live near them, and nothing to do at home. Israeli culture and celebrates youth and often turns a blind eye to the elderly in its midst.

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