Personal Stories

Beneath Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Center, on parking level four, a small city took root through three weeks of war: yoga, singles events, garden chairs.

Last time the writer went to Carnegie Hall for a Jewish event, security turned her away and protesters spat outside. What brought her back.

Anat Mastor fled Iran as a teenager. Today she leads the perfusion team for an Israeli network that has done heart surgery on 8,000 children.

Israel’s UN mission marked International Women’s Day by spotlighting four Iranian women who oppose the Tehran regime, turning the focus toward Iran.

Across Israel, volunteer medics in orange race to emergencies with United Hatzalah, and a growing share of them are women.

Writing from wartime Jerusalem, a father weighs what Purim’s costumes and joy mean against this year, and why it still pulls at him.