(RNS) — Since its founding in 1948, Israel has welcomed American Jews and encouraged their immigration. Now certain Jews supporting Palestinians, like Leila Stillman-Utterback, are deported. (RNS) — ...
ON THIS DAY IN 1883, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The wind whistled merrily over the Concourse at Coney Island yesterday, cleaning out in clouds the dust lodging in the holes with which its ...
My grandfather, Reuven Helman, was born in Palestine in 1927. He fought for Israel’s independence in 1948, and competed in the international Maccabiah Olympics. He and my grandmother, Leah, raised ...