This article was first published on the Times of Israel blog on Friday at http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/derech-haavot-standing-strong-one-footstep-at-a-time/. Three days ago, Tomer Ditur set out from his home in Rosh Tzurim, in Gush Etzion, to go for a run. He ran along Derech Ha’avot, the Path of the Patriarchs, where so many of us in the Gush run and… Read More A Beautiful Day for a Walk with our Fathers
This post was first published on the Times of Israel website at http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/alone-no-more/. It is hard to describe what it feels like to stand in a room of more than 1500 lone soldiers from around the world. But I will try, because that was my experience today. Today, in Tel Aviv, more than 1500 lone soldiers… Read More Alone No More
There was a great story in the international press about a month ago about a woman who joined in her own search party. I was actually surprised that more people didn’t comment, blog and discuss this hysterical story. If you’re an English teacher and you haven’t yet used it as an example of irony for… Read More Icelandic Searches for Self…and Other Discoveries
Nine and a half years ago, Yehuda lost his first friend in Israel. When we moved here 11 and a half years ago, Chanan befriended Yehuda. While Yehuda didn’t know a word of Hebrew, Chanan would smile at him in daycare and they would play together. As Yehuda integrated and learned, they continued to be… Read More A Night of Celebration, Joy and Memory
This was posted today on the Israel Forever Foundation website. Enjoy! If you want to feel a slice of Israeli society, then go and have a mammogram done. (Sorry, guys. I guess you can go for a colonoscopy.) Recently, I took the day off of work in order to have a mammogram. While we are… Read More A Slice of Life in Israel
I published this piece today on The Times of Israel. I’m placing it here for those who might not otherwise see it. May we please hear better news soon. 23 year old Shlomit Krigman was buried in Jerusalem today. Yesterday, two Arab terrorists entered her community while she was grocery shopping and stabbed her in… Read More The Worlds That Were Murdered Today With Shlomit
(I published this piece today at The Times of Israel. I’m placing it here for those who wouldn’t see it there.)I want to curl up into a ball at the moment and disappear. I’ve been wanting to do so all day, and have obviously been fighting the burning urge. Because you see, I have as many… Read More Craving the Chaos of Everyday Life
When I heard that Ezra Schwartz’s family was planning to be in Gush Etzion, I knew that I would be there as well. It didn’t matter what day it would be, or what time they would arrive, or where in the Gush they were planning to be – but I knew I would be there.… Read More In Love and Support
Amidst the bloodshed and the terror are so many hidden gems in this Land of ours. It is such a breath of fresh air to get a glimpse of businesses that are booming, people who continue to work together through the conflict, and places where Israeli innovations are bursting onto the scene and making the… Read More Tehina, Technology & Tunes
I am the world’s worst baker. And I’d say I’ve come to terms with my terrible baking, but you have to care about the activity at hand and your own failure in order to come to terms with things. And I don’t care. I’ve always been a bad baker, and I know that I’ll always… Read More Parenting Lessons Learned While the Doughnuts Fry
