Toby Klein Greenwald is a journalist, playwright, poet, teacher, and the artistic director of a number of theater companies. She is the recent recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award from Atara-The Association for Torah and the Arts for her “dedication and contributions in creative education, journalism, theatre and the performing arts worldwide.” She also is the editor-in-chief of WholeFamily.com, and was the 2018 recipient of an AJPA Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism.
Her books, available on Amazon, include:
By Toby Klein Greenwald KFAR ETZION, Israel — On the morning of June 12, my heart was ripped out of my chest. It was the Friday that, as a teacher in Makor Chaim (“Source of Life”) yeshiva high school, I received a text message that two of our students had been kidnapped. Later we heard that there […]
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Middle East, Toby Klein GreenwaldBy Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM –In mid-May, Congressmen Andrew P. Harris, M.D. and Ron DeSantis, Republicans from Maryland and Florida, respectively, were in Israel as part of a week-long visit organized by the Yes Israel Missions in conjunction with the YESHA Council, which represents the Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria, and sponsored by the
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Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM — Almost every great organization or institution begins with a personal story. I discovered one such school-therapy network in Israel — the Sulam Special Education Center. “Sulam” is Hebrew for “ladder,” because they appear to be helping many children with disabilities climb higher than they ever thought possible. In the case
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By Toby Klein Greenwald GUSH ETZION, Israel — In his official Memorial Day speech at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu described how, as a young soldier, two of his fellow soldiers, 19 years old, were killed during a lethal military operation, and how one of them, David Ben Hamu, died in
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