Author: Irene Rabinowitz

Irene Rabinowitz is a native New Englander who made aliyah in 2014 and lives in Jerusalem. For eighteen years, she was the Executive Director of a non-profit organization serving people with chronic illness and in total has worked in the not-for-profit sector for over thirty years. She presently works as a consultant to non-profit organizations, both in the US and in Israel. She blogs, drinks coffee and single malt, and wakes up everyday thankful to be able to live in this glorious nation.

Milestones and Roadblocks

By Irene Rabinowitz April 29, 2017 April 30, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"2

In the summer of 1986, my mother turned seventy years old. She had been a widow then for the same amount of time as she had been married. To mark the milestone, my brother, my then husband, and I held a surprise birthday party for her. The pictures that sit …