November 22, 2012
3:34 pm

The reservist’s wife, or, Hell on the home front.

I am raw. Spent. I don’t even have the energy to go to sleep. That means thinking. People have been telling me to write all week. But I......

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October 26, 2012
4:30 pm

Shakin’ the elections

Likud Beytenu. We have now had a night to sleep on it. The news, just as those of the Likud-Kadima coalition 6 months earlier, threw me for a loop. After initial shock and annoyance......

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October 21, 2012
6:14 pm

Woman, shut your mouth!

So there you have it. Anat Hoffman was arrested for singing the Shema at the Kotel. It only makes sense. Anat is outspoken, she heads IRAC, lobbies Knesset and strongly supports pluralism in Israel. Of course this......

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September 3, 2012
11:03 am

When it comes to our future, stingy is not sexy

Most of you don't even know about the victims of the budget cuts for Student Authority funding. No reason that you should either. JAFI Chairman Natan......

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July 29, 2012
3:32 pm

Mandatory IDF Conscription from a Hiloni Perspective

* To read another side of the issue, please read my colleague Varda Epstein's Mandatory IDF Conscription from a Haredi Perspective. Immediately before moving back to Israel in 2004,......

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July 26, 2012
7:40 pm

Fighting fire with fire

Those who know me know I am serious. In the past year alone, the Israeli government has taken two full (plus) months of our income as "taxes" in......

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July 12, 2012
6:37 pm

Olim-by-choice suck

I met a friend last week. If I hadn't known him better, I would have been offended by what he had to say about olim-by-choice. Then he stroked......

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July 6, 2012
2:32 pm

Wives of IDF reservists are also friarot (suckers)…

In our home, serving in miluim (reserve duty) does not entail a question mark. It is what needs to be done to ensure that our country has the reserves......

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July 4, 2012
9:27 pm

What a load of… fluff

Let's talk fluff. It's all anybody reads these days. As a fellow blogger made clear to me, many of the important issues that are discussed in the Times of Israel......

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July 1, 2012
11:43 am

Aborting Israel’s future, before it has the chance to grow…

The Jewish Agency announced its pullout, in the amount of $4,000,000 per annum for the higher education benefits of olim, and the disastrous consequences of this for......

June 30, 2012
8:54 pm

JAFI bails on education — now who’s gonna foot the bill?

The Jewish Agency just cut their share of funding to the Student Authority, which allocates higher education scholarships for olim, as a part of the immigrant absorption basket. It......

June 26, 2012
8:47 pm

Peres, grassroots organizations, and electoral reform

I would like to discuss a session that I was a part of with President Shimon Peres, from a political perspective. President Peres created an intimate session with bloggers at......

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June 22, 2012
2:02 pm

Dear Mr. President, come take a pleasant walk with me

Dear President Peres, You are one of my childhood heroes. Each time I see you in person, my heart flutters in excitement, knowing that I am speaking with......

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June 20, 2012
9:58 pm

Jewish world, we are here! Let the grassroots grow

The answer is right in front of you, but you don't even see it. This is what I have to say to the entire organized Jewish World: "WE......

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June 20, 2012
1:25 pm

Challenges within the Jewish People

As I walk into the closed door roundtable on the "Challenges of the Jewish People" here at the Presidential Conference, I need to state something for the record.......

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