"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

Multiple efforts in Jewish sovereignty have self-destructed after 75 years. Can Israel defy history — again?

The Shalom Hartman Institute partnered with The David H. Sonabend Center for Israel at the JCC Manhattan on a special Israel at 75 edition of their online magazine, Tamuz.

Can we create rituals to celebrate Yom Ha’atzma’ut that express our relationship with Israel while being authentic to the distance we may feel?