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by Andres Spokoiny Published in Fathom Journal Andrés Spokoiny is the President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network. There was a time,...

Remembering to cherish: From Station Eleven to Jerusalem

One article changed my whole view of Zionism. Since I’d grown up in a strongly Zionist environment, from my home to my day school to my...

Many things that worried us tremendously a few months ago seem to have lost their urgency in the age of COVID19. As Bari Weiss noted in a...

Stav Harari and Dean Shoshani, both 25, had just started their lives together in a new apartment in the colorful Hatikvah Quarter in...

The word utopia was first used by Sir Thomas More in 1516. He coined the term combining two Greek words: ou (not) and topos (place), and...

Israel has two major memorial days: Yom Hazikaron—the remembrance day for fallen soldiers of Israel and Israeli terror victims—and Yom...

Jewish Funders Network mourns the passing of Shimon Peres z”l, a true giant of the State of Israel, of the Jewish people, and of peace....

Most of the folks fighting BDS have the best intentions at heart, and many are doing great work, but collectively, our impact is limited...

I consider myself to be an incorrigible optimist. I’m an eternal searcher for glasses half full and silver linings. Yet, there was a day...

Israel never had a victory parade. Even when military triumphs were outstanding and even miraculous, Israelis knew wars are not something...

The biggest problem when driving in Israel is not that people are reckless, but that they don’t want to be “frayerim.” As in, “I’m not...

The biggest fear of an Israeli is not a nuclear Iran; neither is a rain of missiles from Hamas or Hezbollah. It’s definitely not the...