By Matan Rudner I have a complicated relationship with America. It’s the place where I was born and raised, where as an impressionable youth I first began to understand the…
By Matan Rudner In the seven decades since the establishment of the third Jewish commonwealth, we have revived our language, made the desert bloom, and ingathered the exiles of our…
By Matan Rudner Amid a rapidly changing world, the Jewish community, like all communities of faith, is trying its hardest to preserve its heritage, and pass it on to the…
Throughout millennia of our existence, we’ve transformed from family to tribe, and from people to nation. For thousands of years, we’ve retained a distinctly Jewish ethnicity, culture and system of…
It’s been a year and a half since my aliyah to Israel, and I’d like to make some things clear. I didn’t leave Dallas, the city where I was born…