"To pause in the present one day a year is a blessing; to live permanently while stuck in the present feels like a curse," writes Yehuda Kurtzer in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Yossi Klein Halevi brings his message of hope to Canada to mark Israel’s 76th anniversary.

Younes Nazarian Memorial Lecture of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies on Yom Ha'atzmaut.

As Israel turns 75, one could reasonably argue that it has had the most impressive first three-quarters of a century of any state on Earth.

Here was a vision of our future; an Israel in which I, an American Jew with Bob Dylan as my soundtrack, might also find a place