David Wolf

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Nov 11, 2023, 4:30 PM

A Hair In My Eye

I feel stupid to write at this time about any difficulties or stress that I’m experiencing… How can I complain, or moan or kvetch about anything… when our situation is almost perfect, when our difficulties are nothing compared to the...

Oct 14, 2023, 1:43 PM

Laila Shaket – A quiet night

50 years ago. The Yom Kipur war. Even though I had been a combat soldier with the Nachal paratroopers (Gdud 50), by the time the war started I didn’t yet have a reserves unit and ended up attached to a...

Dec 18, 2020, 12:55 PM

Word Laundering

Every day we get warned – if something isn’t done soon, it will get worse… Since our present government is paralyzed and cannot make decisions, clerks and ministries need to come up with creative ideas that don’t require such a...

Sep 25, 2020, 9:58 PM

How will I remember this year’s Yom Kippur?

How will I remember this year’s Yom Kippur? What mark, what memory, will it leave in my mind? In the past, I saw Yom Kippur as a religious holiday only. As a religious Jew living outside of Israel, I saw...

Sep 22, 2020, 5:06 PM

Corona and values

Endless discussions. Synagogues, theatres, restaurants, parks, schools, flights... etc etc... For each rule, for each prohibition, a hundred exceptions. They drive us crazy, it’s true. They make and un-make rules every ten minutes. But the discussions, the doubts, the arguments… teach...

Sep 18, 2020, 10:47 PM

It can always be better!

Many people comfort themselves by saying ‘things could be worse’. Anything bad that happens, war, sickness, money problems… it could be always be worse. Sometimes that can be comforting. Things may be ‘bad’ but they are not ‘worse’, thank G-d. This is...

Jul 2, 2020, 6:44 PM

Do you believe in corona?

Suddenly, the country is divided down the middle: there are those who ‘believe’ in corona and there are those who don’t. The corona virus has mutated into a religion… I am a believer. I avoid going out, I wear a mask...

May 9, 2020, 4:27 PM

Dear Lockdown, I miss you already…

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You’ve barely started to leave us and I miss you already! When you were here, we had lots of quiet time at home. When you were here, we were allowed to walk only 100 meters and I walked more than I...

Mar 24, 2020, 9:23 AM

I received special attention from my Kupat Holim - Meuhedet. I received a phone call -- how are you? Any symptoms -- cough, fever, breathing trouble...? Have you been abroad in the last two weeks? Do you know whom to...

Mar 12, 2020, 10:39 AM

Am I afraid? Of course!

I’m afraid of Corona. I’m afraid of disease. I’m afraid of wars, of traffic accidents, of terrorism, of muggings… I’m afraid of losing money. I’m afraid of not making a decent living… I’m afraid of taking a bus, of taking a...

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About Me

David Wolf writes about his experience of being a second-time husband and father. He has a daughter from his first marriage, and, with his second wife, has accrued three daughters, two sons-in-law, one grandchild and twin 8-year-old sons. He is a social worker in a mental health department and in private practice in Raanana.