Chana Rosenfelder

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Apr 22, 2015, 1:35 PM

Remembrance and celebration

Every year, more and more people ask the same question. Why is Yom HaZikaron set on the day before Yom HaAtzmaut? How can we be properly happy tonight when we have spent all of today in mourning? Unfortunately, every year, there...

Aug 5, 2014, 6:17 PM

It’s Time to Move From Defense

The Israeli leadership has decided that Operation Protective Edge has accomplished all it needs, and now it is time to rebuild the Gaza strip for humanitarian reasons. The government also wants the residents of Israel's southern towns to return...

Jul 30, 2014, 9:52 AM

Where On Earth Is Israel’s Foreign Ministry

Many of us have been spending hours and days trying to win the public opinion wars. On Facebook, we post photos that are being used to show Israel's cruelty alongside the original context of those same photos. It is almost...

Jul 21, 2014, 8:26 PM

I Have A Question

One of my dreams is to be a journalist. I want to be able to share interesting information with others, especially about children, schooling, people who overcome physical handicaps, and Wonderful Things People Do. And, I would like to...

Jul 18, 2014, 9:58 AM

How We Can Win World Opinion

Before I suggest what Israel needs to do to win world opinion, I want to propose a few questions for journalists to ask the democratically-elected Hamas leaders with whom they speak. In fact, I would even ask that of...

Jul 15, 2014, 1:20 PM

Parenting Wisdom Recycled

This morning, Israel appears to have lost more than the battle. We seem to have lost the war. Because if our justification for killing civilians, which happens in war and we must stop apologizing for it (especially when the enemy...

Jul 6, 2014, 11:44 PM

Facing Our Own Evil

The arrests and confessions of several Jewish youth in the kidnapping and murder of an Arab teenager should make us all look in the mirror. So, too, should the murder of two children by their Jewish father, as well as: the...

Jul 3, 2014, 3:20 PM

Preserving The Unity

For 18 days, atheists prayed, Hareidim fed soldiers, Hesdernikim sang along with Miri Mesika, leftists visited settlers, soldiers refused to go home on leave. Americans criticized president Obama's disinterest in the lives of Israeli children. We all loved and...

Jul 2, 2014, 10:50 PM

Tzipi Livni, You Are Right. And Wrong.

You are right, Ms Livni, Honourable Minister of Justice. Writing on facebook or chanting in town, "Death to arabs!" has to be made illegal. Not only because of a fear that it might incite someone to commit murder. After decades...

Jun 30, 2014, 9:34 PM

Now It Is Up To Us

It's over. Three teenagers - children, really - were brutally murdered on their way home from school simply because they are Jewish. They were murdered because the moslem-arab leadership uses all its resources - money, school curricula, media -...

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About Me

Chana made Aliya at age 17 as part of her goal to live Torah in the details. When not writing obsessively, she is a full-time wife and mother, with side helpings of remedial math teaching and case management for special-needs kids. Currently studying psychology and education at Open University and desperately seeking cleaning help.