Friday is a wonderful day in Israel. Like weekends all over the world, it is a time of freedom. Away from work, our brains are free to think, to fly, to dream. In Israel, though, for Orthodox Jews (and yes, still women especially), while our minds are free, our hands …
No, I don’t actually own an assault rifle, but read on! When a person posts on Facebook as often as I do, and when a person writes a blog, he or she is also hoping for any feedback. That feedback can be positive or negative, but feedback and comments, “likes” …
Strange title, no? What do camels and falcons have to do with anything? If you are listening to international media channels, I don’t blame you for not understanding the connection. And, I won’t show you the picture…I wish I’d never seen it. In the south, the Bedouins and Arabs that …
Gadi Eizenkot became the Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces on February 16, 2015. For over 100 days, Palestinians have been launching incendiary bombs against Israel. We have lost over 35,000 dunams of land. Fields decimated, crops destroyed. Orchards that took decades to grow are gone. The tool …
Some people woke up this morning feeling angry. Yes, I was among them, as well. Some people woke up in fear. However, this morning, I woke up with a different sense altogether: Faith. There is another aspect to who we are as Jews that also must come into play. We …
What advice would you give you children? So many things that I want to write about, so many things I learned from my mother and my mother-in-law, and even from my grandmothers. Being a Jewish mother is complicated for so many reasons. You have that angle of being Jewish. You …
In the fifth and final article in this Continuing the Dialog – Take 2 Series, we conclude this second part of the response to the “hate-mailer series.” In this post, I respond to the claim that it is the Jews who need to come to their senses for the conflict to end, …
You’ll probably hear that we are violent (ask Ariel Gold, idiot that she is, and ask Nina too). They’re so busy worrying about the occupation, neither bothered to do anything about another issue that is happening in a far off land. What do they care? If it isn’t a chance …
In this fourth article in the Continuing the Dialog – Take 2 Series, I am dealing with my hate-mailer’s decision – to respond to the assertion that he is apparently mainly a stereotypical Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. His method this time is to resort to the common tactic of the Israel-hater – fiction. …
They come from all over the world; police experts, military leaders, high tech experts and weapons experts. They come to learn. You have a problem with tunnels being dug into your country and drugs and humans being sold? We have a solution. Rockets, chemical warfare? We have a solution. You …
We need reminders. In Judaism we have many ceremonies, but they are not empty rituals, they are reminders. Constantly, we are reminded to remember the period of slavery and the exodus from Egypt. And constantly, we are reminded why we were freed and what kind of lives should we live. …
In the third article in this Continuing the Dialog – Take 2 Series, we delve once again into history. Specifically, I am responding to my “hate-mailer” doubling down on his claim that the number of Jews living under colonial occupation in the Holy Land under either Ottoman or British rule somehow means …
