You may have never heard of “kosher gospel” music before, but the inspirational performances of Joshua Nelson, the creator of this style, will surely call out to your soul. Gospel music is rooted musically, culturally and historically in the Spiritual which was created by enslaved Africans on North American plantations as a tool for and […]
Angela Himsel grew up the seventh of eleven children in rural Indiana in a fundamentalist, doomsday Christian faith. Trying to strengthen her beliefs, Himsel enrolled in The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Instead of reaffirmation of what she’d been taught, she was introduced to an entirely different world of people and perspectives. Himsel’s memoir chronicles her […]
On January 8, 2009, Izzy Ezagui, an American who had enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at 19, lost his arm in a mortar attack on the border of the Gaza Strip. Izzy recounts his tortuous trek through rehabilitation to becoming the world’s only one-armed Special Forces sharpshooter. In the midst of disaster, Izzy […]
Dr. Elisha Waldman spent seven years in Jerusalem treating children—Israeli Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and Palestinian Arabs—who had all been diagnosed with cancer. Waldman spent time in Israel as a teen and medical student, and was thrilled for the opportunity to serve at Hadassah Medical Center to give back to the country he loved. This […]