Ariella Bernstein

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Sep 25, 2024, 9:40 PM

Will You Carry Me?

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I look at the calendar with dread. The first anniversary of October 7th is upon us, sandwiched between the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, which follows only a few days later. Our hostages still aren’t home,...

May 5, 2022, 9:56 PM

Same Time Next Year

Israeli aircraft performs over Tel Aviv, Israel, for the country's 74th Independence Day, Thursday, May 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Yesterday, we commemorated our fallen. A personal and collective day of grief. Yom Hazikaron L’Hallalei Ma’arachot Yisrael is the day’s full name. “Hallal.” A Hebrew word translated as a void, a space, a vacuum, a casualty. Twenty-four hours after the siren wails...

Mar 3, 2022, 5:35 PM

Why We Don’t Tell

We don’t tell because we are ashamed. We don’t tell because it was a friend, a colleague we respect, a public figure with a reputation at stake. We don’t tell because we want the job, the connection, the networking. We don’t tell,...

May 23, 2021, 7:05 AM

Stand With A Palestinian Flag, But Don’t Threaten To Rape Me.

I woke up to antisemitism on Friday morning. And I know the exact moment when it happened. May 21, 2021, at 2:00 am. The ceasefire between Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Israel went into effect at precisely that hour, and that’s...

May 4, 2021, 6:08 PM

Where were you when

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Where were you when you heard that two of our own helicopters carrying soldiers into Israel's security zone in southern Lebanon got lost in the fog, colliding with one another, killing all 73 on board? Where were you when you...

Apr 21, 2021, 8:50 AM

It Takes a Village – Or A WhatsApp Group

Chances are that phone is filled with WhatsApp groups. But I am pretty sure that you don't think of it as a lifeline. About a month ago, I joined two WhatsApp groups that have literally have kept me up into...

Apr 9, 2021, 3:03 PM

The Solemnity Of Service

Source: Ariella Bernstein, Yom HaZikaron on Mount Herzl, 2019.

He drafted days before Passover. It's his first Yom HaZikaron in uniform. The path to this day started four years ago in 11th grade. In the days preceding his draft, he was reticent and restrained. Subdued and silent. So...

Mar 25, 2021, 7:30 PM

We turned you away

The empty arrival hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on February 3, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Jews around the world, at least those who are not Israeli citizens, are angry that Israel’s skies are closed to them. They are particularly incensed if they have children or grandchildren in Israel and planned to visit over the...

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Ariella Bernstein lives in Jerusalem.

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