Debbie Rosenzweig, at The Blogs

May 9, 2022, 11:13 AM

On Yom Hazikaron, I walked into my 7 year old daughter’s room to find her secretly scribbling a Yom Ha’atzmaut card. In royal blue marker, she drew an Israeli flag and wrote in freshly-literate Hebrew: “Happy Yom Ha’atzmaut to my...

Apr 11, 2018, 11:25 PM

How the Miraculous Present Remembers the Horrible Past

Last year I spent Yom Hashoah holding my newborn baby girl in the maternity ward of a Jerusalem hospital, the sound of the memorial siren crying together with the next generation of Jewish Israeli babies. Although this was an...

Aug 12, 2016, 1:34 PM

Shopping for Strangers

One-third of Israel's population is living in poverty. One-third. One of every three people on the bus with you, one of every three families in your building, one of every three kids in your daughter’s class. Some of them...

Jul 25, 2015, 11:39 PM

Mazel Tov! The Messiah Lives Upstairs

On the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av I had a dream. I dreamt that I was hiking through a destroyed, apocalyptic-looking tundra, reminiscent of Planet Earth in the movie "Wall-E", when I turned around to see my...

Jan 12, 2014, 4:51 PM

Distorting nature

Human beings have always looked to the natural world for guidance, finding symbolic meaning in the rhythm of the tides, the patterns of the stars, and the cycles of the sun and moon. An example can be seen in...

About Me

Debbie made aliyah from Toronto in 2008, and currently lives in Tekoa with her husband and three children. She has a BA in Jewish History and Jewish Philosophy from Bar Ilan University and works as a freelance content writer. She loves swimming, writing, hiking, and all forms of people and potatoes.