Zionism offers an identity anchor in a world of dizzying choices - and a road map toward national renewal. A century ago, Zionism revived pride in the label "Jew"; today, Jews must revive pride in the label "Zionist."

As I write this from Israel, ten days after commemorating Yam Hashoah, I don't want to let this day pass without thinking about what this fateful event meant to European Jewry and what it means for us today

While many Ashkenazi haredim will not acknowledge Yom Ha'Atzmaut, amongst the Sephardim the debate is more about the nature of the day.

In the army, my father's role was bringing the dead to a dignified Jewish burial.

The story of the struggle of the 'illegal immigrants' aboard the Exodus is only one of many heroic and magnificent stories of Holocaust survivors' journey to the State of Israel in the years between 1945-1948.