.... It was decried as an example of torture in the international press. Jesse’s execution was another “first” that Rabbi Richter and I went through together. There had never been a time when an inmate had to be consoled over the execution of her mate. Rabbi Richter visited with me on death row...

... visiting: all the wonderful people whom I love brought fresh fruit, homemade macaroni and cheese, and funny stories to sustain me during my long hospital stay. They likely had walked one to three miles to visit me, since by tradition there is no driving on Shabbat and many Jewish holidays. Ruth Cohen...

...Post (Visit Palestine) or The Guillotine by Amer Shomali is a satirical adaptation of a 1936 tourism poster designed by Franz Kraus. Here, the separation wall blocks the view of Jerusalem that Kraus had hoped would entice tourists to visit Palestine. Amer Shomali (amershomali.info) ...

... to be there, as always. Seeing friends, drinking endless lattes in Ithe Israeli version of middle European coffee houses, enjoying the special atmosphere of conver­ sation that so characterizes that city as a Jewish intellectual hothouse. I first visited Israel in 1961, six years before the Six Day War cannot...

... aunt. As children we traveled back and forth constantly, sometimes with my parents, sometimes alone, to visit grandparents, purchase certain goods, or just visit friends and have dinner in Mexico. The same freedom was not there for many family members who did not have papers to cross...

...Alana Y. Price Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 Painting Past To view a behind-the-scenes photo essay of Salma Arastu's Borders studio and read about how Lord Krishna began to dance his way back into her paintings, visit...

... in a position to change, even if so inclined. ulitis). Cubans, by most measures, are poor. Yet the Cuban education This writer recently had the opportunity to visit Cuba as part of and health care systems are free and universal, and literacy rates aC...

... By Brian Walt n 1 9 6 9 , D a v id B e n G u r i o n , t h e f i r s t P r i m e M i n i s t e r o f I s r a e l , v i s i t e d C a p e T o w n . H e was by far the most important Israeli visitor to our small town. I remember his visit vividly. He Imet...

... of passionate moments in this home — mostly arguments about Israel’s occupation of Palestine, but also scotch-soaked parties with visiting writers, artists, and far-flung friends. In Rehavia, where the streets are mostly named after scholars and poets from the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, today you...

... a Ginzbourg, a twenty-one-year-old student majoring in economics and sociology at Tel Aviv University, isn’t doing homework. Instead, she is visiting the West Bank...

... in Kansas City, a three-hour drive southwest of where I was living. We called and made an appointment to visit her on June 30th. The day came and we drove down to see her in his little truck. I was as excited as I could possibly be. Did she still have the trunks? What was in them? Would she show them to us...

... call the heart of the ancient Jewish homeland. We visited Froman in Tekoa, the ancient city of the prophet Amos, located between Hebron and Jerusalem in the West Bank. He was one of the founders of Gush Emunim , the right-wing settler movement formed after the Six-Day War. If you read about him...