Perhaps I’m tired because we were woken, again, this morning by missiles sent to kill us in our homes. Or perhaps it’s because I didn’t sleep well, thinking about Master Sergeant (Res) Avraham Azulay who was murdered in Gaza yesterday; who was murdered by three terrorists who tried to kidnap him. Or perhaps I had… Read More Perhaps
This first appeared on the Times of Israel blog. It’s almost impossible to put into words what our community of Gush Etzion (and Efrat more specifically) is experiencing at the moment with the murder of Maia, Rina and Lucy Dee. We live one town over from where the Dee family lives and we don’t know… Read More Life Today In the Shadow of Murder
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Please stop talking, for one minute, about what did or did not happen on Sunday when a terrorist drove a truck over our children on a beautiful promenade overlooking the Old City in Jerusalem killing four of them and injuring many others. Stop talking about Elor for one minute and the state of the Army,… Read More This Video is My Israel
This first appeared on Israellycool here. You know that you’re living a strange existence, or perhaps a particularly special one, when you end up seeing your need for gas as a blessing. During the summer months I’m particularly pressed for time. The kids’ camps offer only a sliver of time to run to the office,… Read More The Blessings of Being Low on Gas
We aren’t in the midst of a conflict here in Israel. You read that right. There’s no conflict. A conflict is inherently an event where two parties are engaged in a fight, a battle, a struggle. There’s no conflict in Israel right now. There is terror. Period. Out and out one-sided terror. When I see… Read More There Is No Conflict Right Now In Israel
On Tuesday, while Dahlia was being buried in Tekoa by hundreds of friends and family members (and complete strangers), my first grader was filling out a worksheet. He came home with the form to show me what they had done in school, and I simply wanted to put my head on the table and cry.… Read More Talking about Terror, Tefillin and More
This morning, when we awoke to the shocking news of the assassination attempt against Rabbi Yehuda Glick, I had to wonder if my babysitter would be coming to our house as scheduled, tonight. And then I had to stop, pause, and shake my head at the incongruity of our lives, and the preposterous and seemingly… Read More Only Two Degrees of Separation
