<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[ZioPride]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZioPride is a quick-read guide to Zionism, Jewish identity and Israel, with practical tools to respond to antizionism with confidence.]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/joodles</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:42:25 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ziopride.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring Jews from today: Boris and Sofia Gurman z"l]]></title><description><![CDATA[Boris Gurman z"l (69) and his wife Sofia Gurman z"l (61) showed a form of heroism that is immediate, instinctive, and deeply human.   When the attack began at Bondi, they did not run. Dashcam footage shows Boris stepping toward the gunman, attempting to tackle him and wrestle the weapon away. Sofia moved forward to help him, trying to pull the attacker off her husband. In those critical moments, their actions saved lives by slowing the attacker and drawing his attention away from others.  ...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/inspiring-jews-from-today-boris-and-sofia-gurman-z-l</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bf399bcf14a7a450cdb193</guid><category><![CDATA[inspiring Jews today]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:37:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli innovation: ZAKA - Sacred Service and the Honour of the Dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZAKA is an Israeli volunteer emergency response organisation founded in 1995 to bring order, dignity, and compassion to the most devastating scenes of terror and disaster. Its mission is grounded in a central principle of Jewish law: the dead must be sanctified, and every part of a person’s body must be returned for burial. This obligation, chesed shel emet , (true kindness), is considered one of the highest mitzvot because it is given to someone who can never repay it.   ZAKA volunteers...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/israeli-innovation-zaka-sacred-service-and-the-honour-of-the-dead</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bf3966915fd340e9e95ac8</guid><category><![CDATA[Israeli innovations]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:36:01 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring Jew from today: Josh Frydenberg]]></title><description><![CDATA[Josh Frydenberg has become one of the most important public advocates for Australian Jews in recent years. Over the last two years, he has worked relentlessly to confront rising antisemitism and support a community facing fear and uncertainty.   A former Treasurer and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, Frydenberg is one of the highest-ranking Jewish politicians in Australia’s history. He carries that identity with confidence and pride. Since October 7, through speaking clearly when others...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/inspiring-jew-from-today-josh-frydenberg</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bf3933cf14a7a450cdb0ac</guid><category><![CDATA[inspiring Jews today]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:35:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring Jew from Today: Yotam Ottolenghi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yotam Ottolenghi has done more than make Middle Eastern food famous. He has shown that cooking can build bridges. Born in Jerusalem to an Israeli father and a German Jewish mother, he grew up with many voices and tastes, and learned early that the table is where differences can meet.   After moving to London, he kept that spirit alive. Through his books and restaurants, he introduced a wide audience to food that is colourful, generous, and meant to be shared. Every dish plays with contrast,...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/inspiring-jew-from-today-yotam-ottolenghi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9e462bcb9fb0e96f3b00b</guid><category><![CDATA[inspiring Jews today]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:31:57 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Innovation: Wheelchairs of hope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Founded in Israel in 2015 by designer Pablo Kaplan, Wheelchairs of Hope makes bright, sturdy wheelchairs for kids who need them most. Each one costs under 100 dollars to build and is tough enough to roll over dirt roads and rocky ground.   Working with UNICEF and the World Health Organization, the team has delivered thousands of chairs across Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. For many kids, it is their first real chance to go to school, play with friends, or move around on their...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/israeli-innovation-wheelchairs-of-hope</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9e4413df4a8950cf6a994</guid><category><![CDATA[Israeli innovations]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:31:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous Jew in History: Sir John Monash (1865–1931)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sir John Monash was one of Australia’s greatest military leaders and engineers, and one of the first Jews to rise to national prominence. Born in Melbourne to Prussian Jewish parents, he had a brilliant mind and a quiet confidence that shaped everything he did.   Before World War One, Monash was already a top civil engineer. When the war came, he brought logic and planning to the battlefield. As commander of the Australian Corps, his smart strategies at Hamel and Amiens in 1918 helped turn...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/famous-jew-in-history-sir-john-monash-1865-1931</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9e4199f707efd84e2ca5b</guid><category><![CDATA[famous jews in history]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:30:42 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring Jew from Today: Deborah Conway]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deborah Conway is one of Australia’s most respected and successful singer songwriters. For more than forty years she has been a central figure in Australian music, first with the band Do Re Mi and later through a long solo career that earned her awards, acclaim, and a loyal following.   After October 7, Conway spoke openly as a proud Jew and a Zionist. That decision changed everything. She was doxxed, abused online, and blacklisted by most of the Australian music industry. People who once...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/inspiring-jew-from-today-deborah-conway</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9e3f03df4a8950cf6a8db</guid><category><![CDATA[inspiring Jews today]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:30:02 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Innovation: Rummikub (Rummy Tiles)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rummikub was invented in the 1940s by Ephraim Hertzano, a Romanian Jew who emigrated to Israel after the war. Banned from playing card games under the Communist regime, he created his own version using small tiles instead.   From his kitchen table in Tel Aviv, Hertzano began selling sets door to door. What started as a family pastime soon spread across Israel, and later the world. By the 1970s, Rummikub had become one of the best selling games in America, winning Game of the Year in more than...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/israeli-innovation-rummikub-rummy-tiles</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9e3cf9f707efd84e2c9c9</guid><category><![CDATA[Israeli innovations]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:29:27 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous Jew in History: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933 to 2020)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a US Supreme Court Justice who changed how the world sees equality. Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, she learned early what it meant to face barriers. When she graduated from law school, few firms would hire her because she was a woman, a mother, and a Jew.   She spent her career turning quiet determination into action. As a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, she argued and won five major Supreme Court cases that ended laws treating men and women...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/famous-jew-in-history-ruth-bader-ginsburg-1933-to-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9e3ac9f707efd84e2c97c</guid><category><![CDATA[famous jews in history]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:28:55 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring Jew from Today: Lt Col (Res) Jonathan Conricus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Conricus is an Israeli former army officer and communicator who has spent much of his career explaining Israel to the world with clarity and professionalism. He served in the IDF for 24 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. From 2017 to 2021, he was the international spokesperson for the IDF, responsible for public diplomacy, media engagement and global outreach. In the wake of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, he returned to duty as a reservist and again took on...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/inspiring-jew-from-today-lt-col-res-jonathan-conricus</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9e3413df4a8950cf6a773</guid><category><![CDATA[inspiring Jews today]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:27:08 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Innovation: The Ashalim Solar Tower]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the Negev desert, Israel has built one of the world’s most striking renewable-energy projects: the Ashalim Solar Tower. Construction began in 2014, turning a stretch of empty desert into a vast field of possibility. Over more than three square kilometres, around 50,000 computer-controlled mirrors now track the sun throughout the day and direct its light toward a central tower. The concentrated heat is then converted into steam and finally into electricity.   The tower has a capacity of 121...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/israeli-innovation-the-ashalim-solar-tower</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9e318fde2f1f6ed295ca7</guid><category><![CDATA[Israeli innovations]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:26:26 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous Jew in History: Judah the Maccabee (d. 160 BCE)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Judah the Maccabee was the military leader of the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid Greek Empire in the second century BCE. At a time when Jewish practice was banned, the Temple was desecrated, and assimilation was enforced through violence, Judah led a small, poorly equipped force that refused to surrender Jewish identity. His strategic leadership turned a desperate grassroots uprising into a disciplined campaign for survival and self determination.   Against overwhelming odds, the...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/famous-jew-in-history-judah-the-maccabee-d-160-bce</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9e2f49f707efd84e2c7da</guid><category><![CDATA[famous jews in history]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:25:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring Jew from Today: Chaya Mushka Dadon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chaya Mushka Dadon is 14 years old. When gunfire erupted at the Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration, she saw two young children exposed in the open. She ran toward them, pulled them close, and shielded their bodies with hers. She was shot in the thigh while protecting them.   In interviews afterward, Chaya said she did not hesitate, she felt she had to act. She said she trusted in God, recited the Shema, and focused only on keeping the children safe. She described feeling a clear sense of...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/inspiring-jew-from-today-chaya-mushka-dadon-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9e2c93df4a8950cf6a672</guid><category><![CDATA[inspiring Jews today]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:25:05 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring Jews from Today: Israeli content creators]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the current war, another response has spread across Israeli social media: humour. Not just from professional comedians, but from ordinary Israelis. Short clips appear across TikTok, Instagram and WhatsApp groups. Some are silly. Some are clever satire. Many are simply people finding a way to breathe in the middle of uncertainty. Humour has long been one of the Jewish ways of surviving difficult times. Today’s Israeli content creators are continuing that tradition in real time.    ...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/inspiring-jews-from-today-israeli-content-creators</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b09c7d4b8043385bd3fc73</guid><category><![CDATA[inspiring Jews today]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:35:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Innovation: The Mamad Law]]></title><description><![CDATA[After the Gulf War, when Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israeli cities in 1991, Israel changed its building code. From 1993, every new home had to include a reinforced security room known as a mamad. It  looks like any other room, but it has: concrete walls reinforced ceiling steel blast door sealed window designed to protect against missile fragments and chemical threats. The room is built into the structure of the home itself. It is used every day as a regular room, perhaps a bedroom or games...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/israeli-innovation-the-mamad-law</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b09c0d00ff578fc8ea41e9</guid><category><![CDATA[Israeli innovations]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:33:45 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous Jews in History: Victor Frankl (1905–1997)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor who endured Auschwitz and several other Nazi concentration camps. His parents, his brother and his pregnant wife were murdered. After the war he wrote Man’s Search for Meaning, one of the most widely read books of the twentieth century. Frankl’s central idea was simple but profound: even in the worst circumstances, a person still has one freedom left, the freedom to choose how to respond. He wrote: “Everything can be taken from...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/famous-jews-in-history-victor-frankl-1905-1997</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b09be84b8043385bd3fb2f</guid><category><![CDATA[famous jews in history]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:32:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring Jews from Today: The female hostages who have spoken out]]></title><description><![CDATA[In recent months, some of the Israeli women who were held hostage in Gaza have spoken publicly about the sexual assault and abuse they experienced in captivity. Arbel Yehud described being assaulted daily. Romi Gonen has also spoken about abuse and captivity conditions. They did not have to speak. They could have chosen privacy. Instead, they chose to make sure the world would know their stories. Others have chosen not to speak publicly. That too is strength. No survivor owes the public their...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/inspiring-jews-from-today-the-female-hostages-who-have-spoken-out</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b09b924b8043385bd3fa67</guid><category><![CDATA[inspiring Jews today]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:31:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Innovation: The Michal Sela Forum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Michal Sela Forum was founded in 2020 with a clear goal: zero domestic violence murders each year. Named in memory of Michal Sela, who was murdered by her partner, the forum focuses on prevention. The forum runs Safe@Home hackathons, in which engineers, designers and security experts come together to build practical tools to stop violence before it escalates. A hackathon is a short, intensive event where teams design and prototype solutions to a defined problem. One  project, nicknamed...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/israeli-innovation-the-michal-sela-forum</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b09b5322bc04bb87f9e334</guid><category><![CDATA[Israeli innovations]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:30:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous Jews in History: Esther]]></title><description><![CDATA[Esther lived in the 5th century BCE in the Persian Empire. Her story is told in the Book of Esther, which we read on Purim.She was raised by her cousin Mordechai and became queen while keeping her Jewish identity hidden. When Haman secured a decree to destroy the Jews of Persia, Mordechai urged her to act. But approaching the king uninvited could have meant death.Esther paused. She asked the Jewish people to fast for three days. She prepared herself. Only then did she make her move. She...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/famous-jews-in-history-esther</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b09b258433d5064644980d</guid><category><![CDATA[famous jews in history]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:29:17 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring Jew from Today: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks  (1948–2020)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rabbi Sacks is widely regarded as one of the great Jewish scholars of our generation. He combined deep Torah learning with philosophical rigour and an ability to speak to the modern world.   As Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013, he led the English Jewish community through significant change, strengthened Jewish education and became a respected voice in British public life.   Appointed to the House of Lords in 2009, he spoke regularly on ethics, faith and society, and authored...]]></description><link>https://www.ziopride.com/post/inspiring-jew-from-today-rabbi-lord-jonathan-sacks-1948-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b09ae4a547e1dd3d7e0908</guid><category><![CDATA[inspiring Jews today]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:27:58 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Proud to be Jews</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>