Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Alisa Coleman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 04:07:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 My Dream As We Leave Yom Ha’atzmaut http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-dream-as-we-leave-yom-haatzmaut/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-dream-as-we-leave-yom-haatzmaut/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:18:32 +0000 Alisa Coleman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=118498 This time of year in Israel evokes intense emotions. Last week on Rosh Chodesh I went to the Kotel. I wanted to go to daven with the women there, to see and experience it for myself . When I got there I couldn’t do it, the hundreds of press and police numbed my feelings, and [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-dream-as-we-leave-yom-haatzmaut/feed/ 7 Waiting for the whistle…..life in the South of Israel http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/waiting-for-the-whistle-life-in-the-south-of-israel/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/waiting-for-the-whistle-life-in-the-south-of-israel/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:17:31 +0000 Alisa Coleman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=78062 . Yesterday I went to visit Sderot and Kfar Aza with a group of Bet Shemesh residents. The night before I had received a phone call asking “are you sure you still want to go, they said it is a war zone”. Humans deal with stress in different ways – the physiological “fight” or” flight” [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/waiting-for-the-whistle-life-in-the-south-of-israel/feed/ 1 Time to drop cynicism and dream again http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/time-to-drop-cynicism-and-dream-again/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/time-to-drop-cynicism-and-dream-again/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:14:34 +0000 Alisa Coleman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=76394 The time has come to face what I see as the biggest danger of our time. This danger will damage our nation more than many other issues.  No it isn’t the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and it isn’t even the secular- religious divide.  It is something much deeper which permeates into all areas of our lives.  Cynicism [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/time-to-drop-cynicism-and-dream-again/feed/ 2 My 18th Yom Ha’atzmaut http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-18th-yom-haatzmaut/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-18th-yom-haatzmaut/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:57:13 +0000 Alisa Coleman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=18246 This is my 18th Yom Ha’atzmaut whilst living inIsrael. For me this year the number 18 is significant.Israelis the only country where people know the multiples of 18! Why? Because 18 represents ‘chai’ literally translated as ‘life”. I think for me this year it represents a ‘lifetime’. It is no longer just ‘exciting’ to watch [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-18th-yom-haatzmaut/feed/ 0 It’s Time To Do…… http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/its-time-to-do/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/its-time-to-do/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:25:18 +0000 Alisa Coleman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=7737 I made aliya 18 years ago as a young Zionist because I knew that this was the place I wanted to build my home and raise my family.  I knew that here, in Israel, I could play a role in shaping our nation’s future.   I knew this because I saw how Israelis cared about each [...]

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