Judy Maltz

Dust off your ice-skates and bust out the moves at Tel Aviv's Iskate rink, located on the outskirts of the Luna Park amusement park

Experience shows it doesn’t really matter where Birthright groups go. What’s more critical is how much of their Israel experience they retain when they go back.

Hiking Israel’s famous nature reserve in the winter offers all the same natural and historical beauty, just with less sweat.

Why would a wealthy woman in Qatar, Lebanon or even Syria reach out over the Internet to an Israeli psychologist when her husband is gallivanting around with a dozen young mistresses?

Two prominent Holocaust historians are rallying support for a petition calling on the international community to help Israel deal with the African refugee crisis.

Last week, Israeli police detained women from a liberal Jewish group who approached the holy site in Jerusalem carrying prayer shawls.

The Khiel Barkan bakery, a Muslim-owned business in Jaffa, serves up a traditional Hanukkah treat – sufganiyot – for Christmas.

Programs for Yiddish-lovers are proliferating both inside and outside the academic world in Israel, despite many having written off the language.

Some visitors got a rude awakening when they discovered that it is illegal in Israel for a woman to wear a tallit at the Western Wall.

Israelis tend to be pretty tolerant of Holocaust humor, but a recent panel discussion asked - how much is too much?

Jewish group claims new decree was issued Friday morning, forbidding women from entering the plaza with Jewish holy articles, tallit and tefilin; World Union for Progressive Judaism calls for third prayer section at Western Wall where men and women can pray together.

If the new age center, created by Israel's richest woman, doesn’t lead you to inner peace and limitless riches, it will at least help you and your kids relax for an afternoon.

Israel's first Master's program in Holocaust studies opens for students who want to explore their families’ muddled past.

The new and varied pastries filling Israel’s bakeries this Hanukkah season aren’t your father’s sufganiyot.

Amichai Lau-Lavie is breathing new life into ancient Biblical tales with his project 'Storahtelling,' a method of Torah engagement that has won fans in the United States and is starting to find an audience in Israel.

The interns teach a minimum of 20 hours a week while working on other volunteer projects in their respective communities. In most cases, they team-teach in pairs, and in some cases, even in groups of three.

At this park just off of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, pint-sized versions of Israel's main attractions allow you to travel the whole country in a single afternoon.

Displaced by rocket fire, young people spending the year interning in Israel organized a campaign to defend their host country back home.

Tel Aviv schools stayed open during Operation Pillar of Defense, but things were far from normal.

Foreigners visiting Israel suddenly find themselves in a war zone acknowledge that this isn't exactly what they signed up for.

New immigrants from Ethiopia get a severe reality check mere days after their arrival in Israel as bombs fall around their absorption center. Despite the shock, they're adapting quickly and looking to pitch in.

Thousands of people who came to Israel on vacation have gotten unexpectedly familiar with its bomb shelters.

Following a blog post insulting the U.S. president and his supporters, members of Rabbi Steven Pruzansky's large Orthodox congregation in New Jersey circulated a petition taking him to task.

The world's most popular soft drink invites you to its Israeli home for a look into the beverage's history, its global impact and, of course, a taste of the secret formula that billions have come to love.

Exiled Tunisian documentary filmmaker Nadia El Fani visits the International Women's Film Festival in Rehovot to remind Israelis that here, too, religious coercion poses a threat.