I’m sure most of us remember where we were 10 years ago today. I was teaching in Potomac, Maryland and had gone into the teachers’ lounge during my free period to get some work done. The first reports of the towers being hit were just being heard, and someone had dragged a grainy T.V. into… Read More 10 Years Ago Today…
I’m sure most of us remember where we were 10 years ago today. I was teaching in Potomac, Maryland and had gone into the teachers’ lounge during my free period to get some work done. The first reports of the towers being hit were just being heard, and someone had dragged a grainy T.V. into… Read More 10 Years Ago Today…
Many people over the last two months have asked us what they can do for Stella. We’ve tried to answer, as best we can, when we have ideas. Others, however, haven’t asked – they’ve simply done. And these interactions have truly been amazing. A number of weeks ago, I was walking in the yishuv when… Read More Ignoring the Big C for an Evening
Today is our 7 year Aliyah anniversary. People often talk about 7 as a monumental number. There’s the 7 year itch in a marriage, made famous by the movie entitled “The Seven Year Itch” with Marilyn Monroe. Survive past seven and you’ve really accomplished something. Judaism is surrounded by the symbolism of the number 7.… Read More The Magic of 7
It’s been a terrible week. Arriving at the emergency room with stomach pains, and the assumption that she’d be diagnosed with an ulcer…an infection…something of the sort…my best friend was, instead, diagnosed with something more sinister. And as we get the boxing gloves out and get ready for the battle we are all preparing to… Read More My Rock…and My Star
It all started with an Israeli wedding. In the year 2002, Josh arrived in Israel for a visit. And, while he was here, he attended the wedding of the brother of our close friend, Itay Ziman. He called me after the wedding to say that he had never experienced anything like it in the world… Read More Hope and Promise for the Future
It’s certainly a funny thing when a mailbox can make you smile. For a few weeks now, there has been construction in the center of the Yishuv by our mailboxes. And I’ve been wondering what they were doing, but I hadn’t taken the time to actually stop and look. For those who don’t live here… Read More When a Mailbox Can Make You Smile
Yesterday was a terrible day. In our immediate area there are four yishuvim (small towns). There was a funeral in each and every one of them yesterday. In Efrat, Alon Shvut and Elazar, the people buried members of their communities who were killed in a terrible head-on collision. Here in Neve Daniel we buried a… Read More The Reverberation of Grief
It was 10 years ago today that two young bar mitzvah boys decided to explore the mountains by their home. As you know, they never returned. Rather, while walking on their journey, they were set upon by 4 Arabs and were pummeled to death – beyond recognition – for the crime of being Jewish children… Read More Remembering Koby
It’s 1935 and Rivki is part of the Bnei Akiva youth movement in Poland. Once a week, she gets together with her friends and they talk about the dream of establishing a country together – the dream of traveling to Palestine to work the land. They focus on the ideology of Torah v’Avodah – that… Read More The Magic of Daglanut
