Writer: ISRAEL21c Staff

An Israeli perspective

Bar mitzvahs and weddings don’t have to be extravagant affairs.As an antidote to the $100,000 bar mitzvahs that have become de rigueur in certain American

When bread is not an affliction

‘We were brainwashed to believe that carbohydrates are the enemy’ Olga Raz.-Over the years, Americans have embraced all manner of diet trends: from Dean Ornish’s

A model for Arab-Israeli peace

Patients don’t know whether the doctor who saved their lives is Jewish or Arab.This column is being written literally from the bottom of my heart.

The Land can bring us together

Give Israelis and Arabs a chance to cooperate on the environment and learn about each other. Inspired by Martin Luther King’s 1963 Civil Rights March

On freedom and democracy

Israel is a shining example of the democracy which other nations aspire to. Two weeks ago, the British magazine The Economist published a feature about

National Guard trains in Israel

Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, meets Israeli soldiers who were training in urban warfare techniques during their visit to

Winds of political change in Israel

The time to rethink our electoral process is now.Statistics don’t lie. In 57 years of existence, there have been 30 governments in Israel, an average

A Jerusalem mosaic

Hospital emergency rooms are the great equalizer of Israeli society.Maia’s scream shattered the false calm of an early fall Jerusalem morning. She was clutching her

Keeping the covenant

Ten years after Rabin’s death, democracy can’t be taken for granted.The word ‘covenant’ (brit in Hebrew) appears in over 200 places in the Bible. It

Getting your MBA – the Israeli way

From India to Vietnam, students are using Gmax’s online courses to score highly on American standardized tests.Mohit Gupta, an electronics graduate originally from India, moved