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April 8, 2013
4:41 pm

My mother’s photo album

At the bottom of a drawer in my mother’s bedroom there was a large album full of sepia photographs. As a young girl I sometimes took it out and looked......

February 28, 2013
8:03 pm

Once more into the bleach, dear friends

No sooner have we put away the peroxide hair dye than it’s time to go once more into the bleach, dear friends – at least once more – as......

December 25, 2012
4:32 pm

My First Christmas as an Israeli

It may seem a little odd considering it was eighteen years ago, but I remember my first Christmas Day in Israel very clearly. I’d been here almost five months and......

November 27, 2012
10:53 am

Israel needs an ehudna

Ehud Barak has announced his retirement from politics. Please. I don’t buy it for a moment. We’ve been here before. By rights, Barak’s political career should have been over for good after his humiliating electoral defeat......

November 20, 2012
6:33 pm

Amidst the doom and gloom, a bright light shines at Alyn

“Doesn’t anyone have any good news?” was the plaintive question a friend posted on Facebook yesterday. “Yes, I have,” I replied. And here's my good news. After braving torrential rain, fierce winds......

October 29, 2012
3:23 pm

Remember the 4th of November

I remember exactly where I was on the evening of Saturday November 4, 1995, when I heard that Yitzhak Rabin had been shot. My family had spent a lovely Shabbat away......

September 27, 2012
7:12 pm

From the still of Yom Kippur to the hustle and bustle of Sukkot

As soon as Yom Kippur’s palpable sound of silence comes to an end, there is the unmistakable clank of sukkah building and the flurry of activity that traditionally accompanies......

September 23, 2012
11:04 am

Time to introduce Yom Kippur Time

It is officially winter time. So have we brought our winter duvets, woolly hats and thermal underwear out of storage? Not yet. From where I sit – which is in my......

August 29, 2012
11:33 am

A silly season with plenty of nukes, but where are the cukes?

We are almost at the end of what is known in media terms as the silly season. It’s summer time; politicians are away and in theory there are no......

August 28, 2012
11:55 pm

Do we really sanctify life?

Today is Gilad Shalit’s 26th birthday, the first one he is celebrating as a free man since he turned 19 in 2005. Although I organized and joined......

August 14, 2012
5:59 pm

Give all Israeli kids a sporting chance

My Olympic withdrawal symptoms started in earnest today. Yesterday’s TV programmes and newspapers still featured reports of the final day’s highlights, so it’s only now that I’m having to......

July 25, 2012
3:28 pm

Oh to be in Finchley, now the Olympic torch is there

It’s been almost 18 years since I made aliya, and by now I don’t pay too much attention to what’s going on in the old country. My last trip......

May 30, 2012
4:42 pm

Before Munich there was Lod: 40 years since the Lod Airport massacre

Imagine a world where you could turn up at an international airport shortly before your flight was due to leave, and undergo a security check involving nothing more than......

May 3, 2012
12:39 pm

Lag B’Omer: When you can’t see the trees for the wood