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
Many peoples’ lives take a linear path, like a non-stop, domestic flight. They know where they started and they know where they will end. They are born and raised in one location – and they remain in that place physically and spiritually as they age. My life, on the other hand, has been more like… Read More The First Invitation…A Beginning
I feel like Noach after the flood. Fortunately, rather than surviving a real flood, I have had the privilege of experiencing a flood of love and affection that I’ve been showered with over the last 40 days. 41 days ago, I was sitting in the family room, when the boys suddenly started singing “Happy Birthday… Read More Noach at 40
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
It’s such a complicated country we live in. Today is Mother’s Day, and as I was wishing all of the moms in my life a beautiful day through Facebook and on the phone, I could hear music of mourning in the background in my own home. See, it’s Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) here which is… Read More A Baby Giggles…A Siren Wails
About a week ago, Josh started a 40 day party for me. He’s doing something sweet for me each day for the 40 days leading up to my 40th birthday. Yes, adorable. So, last Friday he came home with flowers. There were three small bouquets, and after we put two in vases around the family… Read More The Smallest of Details
