Diana Barshaw Rich, at The Blogs

Jun 20, 2023, 12:10 PM

View of Jerusalem from the top of the Mount of Olives. The Dome of the Rock stands out gleaming on the Temple Mount

Isaiah 56: 6-7 Also the foreigners that join themselves to the Lord to minister unto him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, … Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them...

Jan 30, 2022, 4:14 PM

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To do justly

I recently took a tour of Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, though I was sure I couldn't learn anything new from the guide's spiel. I left there a changed woman

Feb 3, 2021, 2:52 PM

Give us Liberty

Israel is heading into another election and it seems once again we’ll have a political stalemate and be unable to form a stable government. Same old, same old. I suggest a shift in strategies that might realign the parties and...

Aug 19, 2020, 10:59 AM

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Beauty, thankfulness, comfort and study: The power of prayer

I have found prayer in my silent accounting of everything I have to be thankful for, but I’m convinced that if I could believe in God, I’d pray better

Jun 24, 2020, 8:21 AM

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I’m a racist, or the perversion of language

Overhead view of an anti-police brutality Black Lives Matter protest rally on Third Avenue on June 2, 2020, in New York City. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

If these days it's racist to think a white person has as much right as a black person to quote Martin Luther King Jr., then that's a label I'll wear with pride

May 19, 2020, 3:40 PM

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Age of consent

The gross underestimation of older people and their ability to determine their own fates was strong in Israel long before COVID-19

May 12, 2020, 11:32 AM

Risk and Joy

“Simple liars, damned liars, and experts.” Anonymous quote found in the journal Nature in 1895 I was blessed with parents who placed high value on raising me with freedom, and they were able to find ways to give it to me. ...

Apr 27, 2020, 3:13 PM

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Liberty versus the virus

I'm far less afraid of COVID-19 than I am of illogical regulations being followed blindly by a cowed, compliant population

Dec 2, 2015, 5:41 PM

In the Line of Fire

Last December I began a pilgrimage hiking alone from Eilat to my mother’s grave in Jerusalem. My husband, Don, and I flew to Eilat together. We walked to the end of the Israel Trail where a few years earlier...

Aug 10, 2015, 4:13 PM

Rule-Bound

I was going back home on the 940 express bus from Jerusalem to Haifa. For personal reasons my trips to Jerusalem are stressful and exhausting. So being on the bus going home is a reward for me, a time...

About Me

I've lived in Israel for thirty plus years, I was a marine biologist and raised two sons here, but I didn't know the country. Then my husband and I, with our dog Taffy, hiked the 1000 kilometer Israel National Trail and a new path opened up in front of us and we discovered Israel. Now I am a Registered Israeli Tour Guide and it is the adventure of a life time to show others what I've found.

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