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Aug 26, 2021, 12:11 PM

Impending September 1st Bidud Disaster

I write this piece with full disclosure that I nearly failed the Biology Regents when I was in 9th grade. I am the first to admit that I know absolutely nothing about the science behind vaccines or about how...

Jul 22, 2021, 2:34 PM

A Year of Tears

Last year at this time, we were loading my parents’ and brother’s cars with our 12 suitcases and 6 carry-ons, with lots of stress and mixed emotions. After years of longing, we were finally fulfilling our lifelong dream of...

Dec 30, 2020, 12:12 PM

Where is David Friedman Square?

It was a few days after the US elections when several states were still counting ballots but it was a foregone conclusion that Biden had won. As a fresh American olah to Israel, the US elections were very much...

Oct 29, 2020, 3:13 PM

Our Lech Lecha and What We Left Behind

I will not cry today, I resolve as I open my Chumash to learn the parsha. I can’t. I have a busy day ahead of me and after learning the first aliyah yesterday, I spent much of the day...

Jul 2, 2019, 7:57 AM

47 years later… a dream fulfilled

Forty-seven years ago, my grandparents announced they were making aliyah. They sold their house in Brooklyn, purchased an apartment in north Tel Aviv and enrolled my mother at a high school in Israel. But my mother, who was graduating...

May 4, 2018, 7:25 AM

We say ‘Never Again’ but, as an American Jew, I’m scared

Never Again. It’s the catchphrase of the Holocaust. And sometimes when a phrase is repeated so often with confidence and passion, we start to accept it without questioning what it really means. As of late, this phrase has begun to...

Mar 19, 2017, 10:25 PM

Discovering Prayer

It's Sunday morning and I am engaging in the same internal battle that many parents experience: It's the one "day off" of the week. My kids sleep late, take their time walking around in pajamas, make fancy breakfasts, skype with...

Jan 5, 2017, 8:15 PM

A mother kills her children and the danger of doing it all

Winter break is over and it’s back to school. There are so many things to get done both at home and at work and yet, all I can think about is a story that happened in Israel earlier this...

Oct 2, 2016, 7:21 AM

Working on Rosh Hashana

It is erev Rosh Hashana as I write this and my kitchen is a wreck as I prepare for the dozens of guests we will be hosting. I love being a Rebbetzin and I love having guests but domesticity...

Jun 23, 2016, 10:14 PM

The ideal Jewish day school graduate

It was a few months into my first year as the Director of Judaics at our community Jewish day school, when a teacher came into my office to discuss my vision of our school. In the midst of the...

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About Me

Ariela Davis is an Israel/Jewish educator. Before making aliyah with her family in 2020, she served as a Judaic director and communal Jewish leader in the U.S. and currently serves as the Menahelet of Ulpanat Orly in Bet Shemesh. She is a freelance writer, editor and speaker about Israel and Jewish topic.