Many Wexnerites have had their voice published on various sites around the web.  We have compiled a recent list. Israel’s Response Is Proportionate to Hamas’s Threat Ami Ayalon (WIFA, Class 3), a former director of Israel’s security agency Shin Bet, wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times on July 23, 2014. We do not measure ethics and morality by counting dead bodies. The fact that many more Palestinians

The past month has been a time of great emotion and tension for those of us living in Israel. From the moment that Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrach, and Gilad Shaar were kidnapped, there was a sense of forboding that overtook the country. And tragically, it seems there is little hope on the horizon for a conflict that has been forced upon the State of Israel. Today, I had the privilege

(Pictured) The Solidarity Rally in Boston Courtesy of Joel Rich. This past Thursday night, the seven new members of the Wexner Israel Fellowship, Class 26, attended a 1,000 person-strong rally in a Boston area synagogue, where the community and various dignitaries expressed support and solidarity for Israel. Here are some of the fellow’s reactions to that evening: “For me, as a senior officer in the IDF, this kind of warm,

I was a young department director at ALYN Hospital Pediatric Rehabilitation Center a decade ago when I first learned of the concept of "cultural sensitivity in health." We can take better care of our patients, I learned, if we understood better their cultural concepts of sickness and healing, their faith and their folklore. Together with the Jerusalem Inter-Cultural Center we developed a curriculum which helped us make ALYN more geared

Translated from Yotam’s article that appeared July 21 in Maariv. These are tough days. As the fighting lingers on, after weeks in which we have experienced mostly substantial operational success and very impressive resilience among the Israeli population, we are now entering a new hard and painful phase in which vague information and rumors turn into actual bad news: “our soldiers are fighting in a determined and heroic way”… ”there

“The blurriness of joy and the precision of pain —
I want to describe with a sharp pain’s precision happiness and blurry joy.” – Yehuda Amicha i “The blurriness of joy and the precision of pain —
I want to describe with a sharp pain’s precision happiness and blurry joy.” – Yehuda Amichai “The blurriness of joy and the precision of pain —
I want to describe with a sharp pain’s precision happiness

Tuli, my driver, greeted me with his handwritten sign and immediately launched into what I can only assume is his typical comedy routine. We walked to the van and he asked me if I spoke Hebrew. “I used to, but it’s been quite a long time,” I told him. “But this year, I am committed to learning again.” We exchanged elementary Hebrew phrases, he complimented my accent, and then I

Aleh is Israel's largest network of residential facilities for children with severe physical and cognitive disabilities. We provide 650 children in Israel with high-level medical and rehabilitative care in four residential facilities.  Aleh is their home and their family – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  Aleh Negev-Nahalat Eran is our southern branch, located just 15 miles from Gaza, near the town of Ofakim.  It provides a high