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I’m sitting in JFK waiting to board a flight to Moscow. This is the first time I have ever been invited internationally to present to a Jewish community and a […]

This is a realistic post, not a shiny glamorous “Wishing you all a meaningful Yom Kippur” post, thought I do. Really. Yom Kippur becomes more and more meaningful as we

Babylon: Myth and Reality (Nov 13, 2008-Mar 15, 2009) is an exhibition that changed my life – even though I had never seen it. It was my father who visited this

“How is this night different from all the other nights?” Jewish children have learned to recount the “Ma Nishtana?” song by heart, and everybody knows exactly what to expect during

Introducing the aliyot in a fun way. Sometimes this is the type of creativity I find myself involved in. Not my usual thing, but thought I’d share. First Aliya This

On November 19, 2016 Magen David Yeshivah was the first school I have taught and guided in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Followed shortly by Tanach Study on December 4, 2016, these were my two

You can take kid out of the Rova, but you can’t take the Rova out of the kid. Growing up in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter in the Old City (“Rova” –

It was last Shabbat in the Golan Heights when I had a profound and timely experience: Being in the land that was bequeathed to Reuven, Gad and Manasseh, while we read

I love Capoeira – a Brazilian Martial art that combines self-defense with music, acrobatics and dance. I started training in martial arts at 13, at age 17 I joined Capoeira,

Gabi is an American-born resident of Leshem, in the Shomron. After working as head of security in Ben Gurion International Airport for eight years, Gabi decided to move into education (we both earned our B.Ed from Lifshitz Teachers College in Jerusalem). He is currently Program Director for Yeshiva University – his alma mater – in Israel.