reflect Israeli life, landscape, and language as well as to respond to the challenges of writing Yiddish in Israel.

Empowered Judaism is a manifesto for transforming the way Jews pray and—more broadly—for building vibrant Jewish communities.

On July 11, 1948, the training group boys march on Lydda. The shooting from the eastern outskirts of town confines them to the olive groves bordering Ben Shemen. Mosquitoes buzz around them, the heat is scorching, and their new iron helmets sizzle on their heads. A few are wounded, others are shell-shocked. The group’s first daylight battle is not