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Mar 22, 2026, 2:44 AM

Dear Diaspora Jews….

Dear Brothers and Sisters, I’ll start from the end: This is a real war. People are getting killed. People are getting injured. Businesses are suffering. Reservists are called up and leaving their families with no school and the most labor-intensive...

Jun 15, 2025, 4:29 PM

The war Chronicles #8. Iran Edition

It's been awhile. We have developed a sad and unacceptable yet at the same time necessary and manageable routine of war. More soldiers in active service, more families struggling with loved ones on the front, more prayers, more kindness,...

Feb 17, 2025, 7:39 PM

JDAIM 2025: Don’t we all have disabilities?

According to University College of London, a disability is “any condition of the body or mind that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities and interact with the world around them.” With that...

Feb 1, 2024, 7:49 AM

The War Chronicles #7 – it’s been awhile. Meet Micha Shmilevich

Writing was getting to onerous. I was sharing what I experienced as I experienced it and that was a lot.....too much, even. So I stopped. The war didn't stop and life didn't stop and there, but for The Grace...

Oct 31, 2023, 7:36 PM

The War Chronicles #6: Haiku

I am not sure why Haiku exists but so what? I can blog with it Head to the North front Leave my wife and seven kids Who have been displaced Early this morning, I drove to my daughter's highschool to deliver some clean laundry.....because I...

Oct 24, 2023, 1:30 AM

The War Chronicles Volume 5: Filling a few blanks

Last night I killed three birds with one stone. Of course, I neither killed birds nor used a stone, but that's what people say: At the end of my day, I realized that one trip to Yerushalayim would net...

Oct 20, 2023, 1:16 AM

The War Chronicles: Has it really been 2 weeks?

Toddler's shoe in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.... (courtesy)

I've noticed that there is something different about the giving that is going on all around me. Typically, when it comes to charitable acts of loving kindness, there is a giver and a recipient. The recipient is lacking something...

Oct 16, 2023, 8:38 PM

The War Chronicles: It’s been a week….

Updates. Just updates..... Thursday was a new day....aren't they all? But I must say that these days have been running one into the next and from my angle, Thursday seemed like a continuation of Wednesday. Woke up. Checked news (what...

Oct 12, 2023, 6:04 AM

The War Chronicles. Day 4….or is it 5? Yeah. It’s 5.

I wrote HERE that I wasn't ready for commentary and I had no insight. I may be ready for some of each, but no matter. To chronicle is to share the facts. Several people reached out and thanked me...

Oct 10, 2023, 3:05 AM

The War Chronicles. Day 3

(courtesy)

War chronicles: Day 3 I have nothing intelligent to say for now, but maybe that's what chronicles are. We chronicle. This is what happened and when; not why. So here goes: It's real. And life goes on for most of us. And...

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About Me

Avi Ganz is the program Director of Ohr Torah Stone's Yeshivat Darkaynu. He lives with his wife and five children in Gush Etzion where he plays the blues on his Hohner, and reminisces fondly of his days playing tackle football with the IFL.

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