Efrat israel

Don’t leave off the love: Devorah Ahavah Gerzoff’s journey to Jewish faith and Israel

A slow rediscovery of Judaism that led from suburban America to a love affair with Israel.

Devorah Ahavah Gerzoff with husband Simcha Moshe.
YARON SHANE: Members remain in the database ‘until they break the glass.’

Inside Chiburim: Yaron Shane’s mission to help IDF soldiers find Love After War

Open pool horizontal.

Israeli community builds world's only mechanical-divide swimming pool

Ohr Torah Stone’s Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva High School dedicated the “Hall of Heroes,” a permanent memorial honoring 25 alumni of the yeshiva who fell in Israel’s wars and terror attacks over the past decades, including 11 who fell in the past two years.

This high school’s library is now a memorial to 25 fallen alumni in Efrat


UN chief Ban condemns Israeli appropriation of West Bank land

"The seizure of such a large swathe of land risks paving the way for further settlement activity, which – as the United Nations has reiterated on many occasions – is illegal," UN chief says.

A house in Gevaot for staff from the special needs school that is now on the site.

Parshat Masei: Destiny vs destination

‘You shall inherit the land [or chase away the inhabitants of] and dwell in it, because it is to you that I have given this land to inherit it’ (Numbers 33:53).

Parshat Masei

Parshat Pinhas: What makes a leader?

Joshua is a true leader, who proved himself by “nurturing” and tending to the needs of his rebbe in addition to his having learned from him.

Picture from the parasha

The man who quietly built Gush Etzion

Moshe Moshkowitz recalls the journey he took to contributing to the creation of 10 communities across the country.

Moshe Moshkowitz (left) in Kibbutz Masuot Yitzhak during Purim this year.

Parshat Behukotai: Destruction, repentance, restoration

Why two chapters of such horrific imprecations and why is our Leviticus chapter mitigated by a promise of Divine remembrance and redemption while the Deuteronomy chapter has no such respite?

Painting by Yoram Raanan; www.yoramraanan.com; www.facebook.com/RaananArt