http://60bloggers.com Happy Birthday Israel: 60 Posts in 60 Days Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:07:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en israel-poem For 3 years in a row I wrote about Jerusalem Together, our class's poems Would have made a guidebook— The Kotel, the hotels The spas, the sea, Ein Gedi Netanya to Renana to the place that gave us Chanuka Sephardic senoritas buying kafiyas in Hertzilya— And none of us knew What we were talking about. When I got to Israel, at ... http://60bloggers.com/2008/06/matthue-roth-israel-poem-download/ By David Suissa, a top advertising executive in LA, columnist for the LA Jewish Journal. A version of this article first appeared in the book “A Dream of Zion” (Jewish Lights). “I can’t explain it.” I hear that over and over again when people try to describe Israel. They see modern ... http://60bloggers.com/2008/06/i-can%e2%80%99t-explain-it/ Rabbi Niles E. Goldstein is the spiritual leader of the New Shul, and author on over half-a-dozen books, including Gonzo Judaism, and God at the Edge. He blogs at newshulblog.blogspot.com As we near the 60th anniversary of its momentous founding, the State of Israel finds itself in a "pincer" situation. Hamas ... http://60bloggers.com/2008/06/israel-at-60-what-next/ David Kelsey has been published in *Forward*, *Heeb*, *JTA, Jewcy, Downtown Express*, and *The Villager*, is a former editor of *Jewschool*, and has his own blog, *The Kvetcher. Israel is important to most Jews because she is a Jewish state, on ancient, Biblical land of the Jewish people. As our ... http://60bloggers.com/2008/06/israel-as-the-spiritual-barometer-of-the-jewish-people/ By Rick Lupert, who has written 11 books, and is creator of the Poetry Super Highway, a major internet resource for poets. See below for full bio. My heart is in the East My heart has always been in the east Once on a trip to New York City, I visited the old Jewish ... http://60bloggers.com/2008/06/my-heart-is-in-the-east/ Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson (http://www.bradartson.com) is the Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism, where he is Vice President. He is the author of Gift of Soul, Gift of Wisdom: Spiritual Resources for Leadership & Mentoring (Behrman House) and writes a weekly email Torah ... http://60bloggers.com/2008/05/dreams-of-zion/ Benji Lovitt blogs about his hilarious immigrant escapades at What War Zone??? You can book him for a stand-up comedy show at www.BenjiLovitt.com. And now…without further ado…(“ehhhh….mah zeh ‘fur-dehr ah-doo?’ MAH ZEH???”) Sixty things I love about Israel: 1. I love that the women are not only hotter than Mitzpe Ramon in July ... http://60bloggers.com/2008/05/sixty-things-i-love-about-israel/ Rav Shmuel is a rabbi who hangs out in Greenwich Village and plays original compositions on his guitar when he's not busy running his Yeshiva in Newark New Jersey or touring the country with his band. Once in a while, and almost allways at an ungodly hour, he'll blog on ... http://60bloggers.com/2008/05/israel-found-and-lost/ Ziva Haller Rubenstein writes on art and design in, by and from Israel for her blog Designist Dream www.designistdream.com and other leading Jewish and Israeli blogs. It’s not hard to celebrate 60 years of awe-inspiring accomplishments in the fields of art, architecture, fashion and design. It is hard however, to ... http://60bloggers.com/2008/05/60-years-of-israeli-design-art-and-achievement-in-6-highlights-from-6-decades/ by DovBear who blogs at dovbear.blogspot.com I was at an event sitting next to one of the guys I enjoy from my neighborhood when he called me a Zionist. He's a Hassid, in the very modern sense, which means he sends his kids to yiddish speaking school but watches broadcast ... http://60bloggers.com/2008/05/am-i-zionist/