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come back Home IsraeLife is an organization aiming to show you that making Aliyah is not as crazy as you might think.
Making friends, serving Israel, going to college (in english or hebrew), getting an apartment, or where to get the best falafel is all very stressful, we know, but also totally 150% doable. Whether you are staying in Israel after your gap year or thinking of dropping out of YU or Queens (are there even other colleges in chul?) to come to the Holy Land, we are here to help you every step of the way.
09/24/2026
On October 7th, I was in southern Israel with my husband and my baby, miles from communities being invaded by Hamas terr0rists. We heard the sirens. We heard r0ckets landing near us. We watched videos of Israelis being m*rdered and dragged into Gaza as h0stages.
And somehow, three years later, Israel is the one being asked to defend this w@r.
The world watched October 7th happen. It saw civilians sl@ughtered and kidnapped. But it seems like they don’t want to actually believe it.
I mourn every innocent Palestinian who has lost their life. But I refuse to pretend October 7th happened in a vacuum, or that Israel was supposed to absorb the worst m@ssacre of Jews since the Holocaust and simply do nothing.
Call Israel whatever you want. Scream “gen0c!de” until the word loses all meaning. But at least do it with the facts. Because right now, you don’t have any.
I will never apologize for Israel fighting to make sure Jewish families never experience another October 7th, and neither should you.
Moving sucks wherever you live but at the very least, here we were able to elevate something so material into the most spiritual.
09/22/2026
Ed Sheeran , when you agreed to have Macklemore open for you, you knew exactly what he stood for. His activism around Palestine was not some secret. Whether you meant it this way or not, putting him on your tour was already a political statement.
Then you stood on stage, read from a teleprompter about how both sides are hurting, and expected everyone to believe that somehow erased the message you had already sent. I don’t.
If you care this much about Gaza, go see the full picture. Go see how Hamas has governed Palestinians, suppressed criticism, and kept Gaza without an open election since 2006. You didn’t even have any albums out then.
Then come to Israel. Walk through Tel Aviv. Meet Jewish Israelis. Meet Arab Israelis. Go to the Gaza border and see the 600 trucks of humanitarian aid going in DAILY, even when Israelis were still being held hostage inside Gaza.
You have one of the biggest platforms in the world, Ed. If you’re going to use it to speak about Israel, then actually learn about the country and the conflict first.
In Israel, Torah is cool. Keeping niddah (family purity) is trending. A “secular” Jew simply does not exist in Israel.
09/15/2026
BEN hope this helps!!!
I find it so crazy we see this and then move on with our day. The 1930’s is back.
When studying the shoah, every single person has had the question: “why wouldn’t they leave??”
Today, if you are still in the diaspora, you now have the answer.
I was inspired to make challah for Rosh Hashanah because, honestly, I’ve been feeling really anxious about money lately.
We just moved into a new apartment. We’re spending a lot. I’m a freelancer, and we are still trying to figure out what our actual careers and next steps look like. From the outside, it can look like everything is together. Inside, it can feel very different.
I asked Shifra Soloveichik ~ Content Producer what she thought I should do, and her number one piece of advice was: make challah.
I loved that.
I haven’t made challah in probably a year or two, and it’s been even longer since I made enough dough to actually say the bracha. So in our new apartment, going into a new year, I decided to start again.
Not just homemade challah because homemade challah is nice. Making enough to take challah. To pause for a second, give back the first piece, and remember that the bread, the apartment, the work, and whatever happens next are all in Hashem’s hands.
And doing it here in Israel made it feel even bigger.
Wishing everyone a year of bracha, parnassah, and peace in the things we cannot control.
Sources:
Bamidbar 15:17–21
Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 322:3; 323:1
Ramban on Devarim 11:18
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