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Chavi Feldman

Aug 8, 2024, 12:35 PM

A few weeks ago, I bought tickets to Koolulum with a friend. For those of you who don't know what that is, Koolulam is a social-musical initiative aimed at strengthening the fabric of society. The project revolves around mass...

Aug 6, 2024, 2:47 PM

A Surreal Life

This past Shabbat was a weird one. While we in Israel are sitting on eggshells waiting for the inevitable, the planet is still turning, the sun rises and sets and life goes on. So Friday was a flurry of...

Jun 10, 2024, 12:50 PM

Looking for the pinpoint of light

I am the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. I have to say, as a teenager growing up in the Toronto Jewish community which was mostly comprised of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, (as well as Mizrachi Jews that were forced...

Jun 4, 2024, 4:11 PM

Serendipity and Happy Accidents

I love happy mistakes. So many of the world's greatest discoveries were accidental. In 1928 Dr Alexander Fleming returned from a holiday to find mould growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. He noticed the mould seemed to...

May 14, 2024, 7:13 PM

Five years and counting…

Last week, I wrote a blog about my grandmother's 100th birthday. I received a lot of good wishes for her unbelievable milestone, and some comments to the blog on this platform, Times of Israel. One of the comments was...

May 10, 2024, 3:03 PM

A Century of Living

The average life expectancy hovers around 73 years -- this is an average between men and women and taking into account different countries. While modern medicine and health care have lengthened people's lives, it's still rare to live a...

Apr 14, 2024, 2:54 PM

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Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags during a protest in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 2023. (Cole Burston/AFP)

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Jan 14, 2024, 8:02 PM

Uncomfortably Canadian

I find that in these last 100 days since the war began, that my feelings towards Canada are now very, very complicated. Uncomfortably so. I was born in Toronto to a mom who was born in Bergen Belsen DP camp...

About Me

Chavi Feldman has a degree in graphic design and advertising and works primarily as a music teacher. She has lived in Israel for more than two decades.