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Chana Yehudis Zahav

Nov 8, 2023, 10:38 PM

Wars are fought with words. People strike each other down and belittle the other until they are nothing with words. Lies are believed when they are spoken with words. Truth can be spoken with words but seldom is as truth requires forethought and words...

Oct 19, 2023, 7:44 PM

Right Vs Wrong

love your neighbor as yourself taken in safed by chana yehudis zahav in 2017

Bs”d Below is a poem written by Chana Yehudis Zahav at age 15 in 1995 in a Nashville TN Public school: “MY JOB Mother dear what shall I do? My hair is blond, my eyes are blue. I will not die, I cannot live, I...

Oct 3, 2023, 5:57 AM

Flaming Headlines

Why are all the rabbis so evil? What do all Hareidim throw rocks at people? Why do all secular women wear mini skirts and drink all day? Why are all Tel Avivians anti religious bigots? Why are all settlers...

Sep 26, 2023, 7:26 PM

Mechitza: The Ultimate Feminist Tool

Meron Mechitza- taken by Chana Yehudis Zahav

bs"d I grew up as a conservative cantor’s daughter who led shabbat services and read torah and prayed in a synagogue without a mechitza (separating barrier between men and women for prayer). I grew up feeling like synagogue was a...

About Me

Grew up in Worcester MA and Nashville TN and made aliyah after completing college at UMD College Park in 2003 because she fell in love with Israel and its people. Spent over 10 years hosting very large shabbat meals in Jerusalem with her husband winning the award in 2016 for Host of the Year on shabbat.com. Experienced 15 years of infertility and now lives in Jerusalem with her husband and son where she has lived for 20 years.