Adina Karpuj Bortz, at The Blogs

Adina Karpuj Bortz

Apr 14, 2017, 12:57 AM

The fatigue is real, but so is her pride at sharing in Israel's deep sense of mandatory service

Nov 22, 2015, 12:43 PM

I sit here, two days after having celebrated my third month as an Israeli citizen, and the scene feels perfect. A calm breeze is blowing through my hair, my witty barista has just drawn a smiley face in my...

Jul 14, 2015, 9:06 PM

Hey Hamas, You’re Killing My Phone Battery

Life was hard twelve months ago. Standing on my toes atop a red clay hill in Clayton, Georgia, I waved my arm around frantically searching for enough 3G to communicate with the universe outside of bonfires and Birkat Hamazon...

About Me

Adina Karpuj Bortz was born in Chile and grew up in Atlanta. She attended The Solomon Schechter Epstein School and The Weber School where her interests in languages, writing, photography, and the Middle East blossomed. She is a Camp Ramah Darom and Szarvas alumna. Adina spent last year living in Jerusalem and traveling the world through Kivunim, and made Aliyah in August 2015. She now serves in the IDF.