Abigail Klein Leichman

Abigail Klein Leichman is a journalist who made aliya with her family in 2007, following 13 years as a features writer and copy editor at The Record, the daily newspaper of northern New Jersey. She has been freelancing since 1984 for a wide variety of secular and Jewish publications and is a staff writer for ISRAEL21c.

Anya Lipster

Anya Lipster: A Russian Israeli with the soul of a Japanese artist

RABBI DAVID GOLINKIN at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. The mural adorning the building, ‘Ot Hi L’Olam,’ created by a group of nine artists in 2019, includes overlapping layers of quotations from Hebrew poetry.

Decades of impact: David Golinkin reflects on his legacy of pluralistic Jewish education

RABBI MORDECHAI FRIZIS

Mordechai Frizis: Israel advocate to Greek public


Knowing when the time is right: Shawn Fink's story of aliyah

At 7:37 a.m., as I was walking out to go to shul with my son, our landline phone rang. It was a woman at the Jewish Agency.

The Fink family in front of their sukkah in Carmei Gat.

Meshigane: Plant-based culinary delights - review

I look forward to sampling whatever creative, cruelty-free concoctions they’ll conjure up next.

Meshigane

The ‘Tattoo Rabbi’ is in the house

Arrivals: David Braslawsce, 28, from Beaver, Pennsylvania, to Hadera, 2025

THE TATTOO RABBI practicing martial arts.

‘Our first in Israel’: The immigrants celebrating their first Rosh Hashanah as Israelis

We asked a few recent arrivals why they decided to make the move now, and how they feel about celebrating their first Rosh Hashanah as Israeli citizens.

An illustrative image of a man blowing a shofar outside an El Al plane in Israel.

Ekaterina Korotovskikh: A painter who followed her heart from Russia to Israel

“I am an Israeli, and that is the most important thing. I am studying the culture and customs of the country, and I am interested in it. I do not feel any difference between Jews and non-Jews.”

‘CAPTAIN SICILY’: Self-portrait of the artist and her husband in the ‘toe’ of Italy’s ‘boot.’

Martin Winiar: Economist by day, stand-up comic by night

"If you come with the realistic expectation that people are people and countries are countries, you will notice that most Israelis are good, and it’s a wonderful country."

MARTIN WINIAR, 32 From Buenos Aires to Tel Aviv, 2015

From Brooklyn to Jerusalem: Dr. Yehuda Resiman's back and forth journey

Now he’s truly home. And although he is unhappy with Israel’s current political leadership, he’s not leaving again. 

YEHUDA REISMAN with a mother and child in Haiti, one year after the earthquake.

Mamilla: When a mall is also a sculpture gallery

'Mamilla is the largest platform for exhibiting sculptures in the country. No other outdoor mall has an ongoing exhibition like this, and no other place has such a variety of Israeli art.'

Large cutouts of knights seen lining the Mamilla Mall in Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim, March 11, 2025

From Baku to Tel Aviv: Galina Mintz’s journey of art, aliyah, and identity

It’s hard to imagine that Mintz’s life would have progressed as it did if she hadn’t made aliyah.

‘CATS’ BLUES,’ dedicated to the stray cat that came into the artist’s home and soothed her soul in the wake of Oct. 7.

From Manchester to MDA: Saving lives in Jerusalem

‘This country is being run by kids, but it works!’

IN HER Magen David Adom uniform.