Gila Berkowitz
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Welcome to the oasis (opens the original)
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Gila Berkowitz has been a reporter and a contributor to national magazines. She has published two novels and a cookbook and is a frequent speaker on Israel, antisemitism and the Holocaust. Overtourism? Not in Israel! Sukkot, the Jewish festival that began last Friday night, is especially marked for welcoming guests from all over the world. This year, the city's streets are filled with smiling faces, the Kotel overflowing with worshipers, the hotels so fully booked that you can only dine in their
Sometimes a perfect body has only one kidney (opens the original)
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Kidneys are funny organs. Legume-shaped, they lack the gravitas of, say, the heart. But in Judaism they take on an unusual aspect. In the liturgy of the High Holy Days-fast approaching-the refrain is read: God examines the heart and inspects the kidneys. We know what is in our hearts, whether it is true repentance or obstinate self-justification or indifference. But we don’t know what is in the “kidneys," the inner sanctum of our consciousness, the truth we may not even reveal to ourselves. I th
A Covenant of blood (opens the original)
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Ask Israelis about the Druze and the first thing they’ll refer to is the stellar performance of Druze soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces. Their role in the defense of Israel is known as “the covenant of blood," and is a point of pride in the Druze community. In towns and villages the Druze and Israeli flags fly side by side. Moreover, at the behest of the Israeli and Golan Druze, the IDF entered Syria in 2025 and came to the Druze’s defense, despite an international outcry. Many Israelis vaca
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