Frimet Roth, at The Blogs

Jun 4, 2023, 9:35 PM

The Sbarro bomber is free as a lark thanks to Netanyahu

Responding to last week's murder of Meir Tamari, a young husband and father of two, in a terror shooting attack , Prime Minister Netanyahu, quoted on this Israel government site, offered predictable condolences and assurances. He concluded with this promise to...

Apr 25, 2023, 9:13 PM

How we talk about terror matters

Everyone grieves differently; naturally. Not surprisingly, families of the victims of terror are often alienated from each other by their varied ways of grappling with their tragedies. But one particular approach to loss has become, I hesitate to brand it...

Jan 31, 2023, 12:43 AM

Netanyahu shouldn’t be trusted on terror

Not many can say, as we can, to the family of Asher Natan, "I know how you feel." Asher was the 14-year-old boy murdered in the Shabbat massacre in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Neve Yaakov. Our Malki was 15 when...

Oct 27, 2022, 2:29 PM

Sara Netanyahu and the strings she pulls

Raviv Drucker is an Israeli investigative reporter who has been sparring with former prime minister of Israel Binyamin Netanyahu since 2016. That's when, as host of HaMakor ("The Source"), a TV current affairs program that ran on what was then known as Israel's Channel 10,...

Aug 4, 2022, 12:44 AM

As Biden is applauded, we’re left wondering

Recent blatant discrimination against our murdered Jewish child, Malki Roth, is a hard pill to swallow. First came the preferential treatment of the Abu Akleh family which was granted a private meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington. The...

Mar 14, 2022, 4:36 AM

Five years and justice is as elusive as ever

Once again, Jordan's King Abdullah II has cast his spell on yet another world leader. Whether it is his glibness, the impressive English, his seamless melding of East and West, it really hardly matters. He always gets what he...

Jan 15, 2021, 10:06 AM

With ambassadors like this…

"Love him or hate him" began a recent New York Times farewell article about US ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman. And we are left in no doubt which is the NYT's sentiment. It's also abundantly clear that Friedman himself...

Nov 26, 2020, 5:15 AM

Forever fifteen

Today (Friday November 27) we mark yet another agonizing birthday. My sweet daughter Malki would now be thirty-five years old if Hamas operative Ahlam Tamimi had made some misstep on August 9, 2001. But Tamimi was and still is a seasoned,...

Jul 13, 2020, 7:53 PM

Will COVID-19 herald de-institutionalization?

My daughter Haya, who is affected by extreme disabilities, sits in her wheelchair listening to music that she enjoys by operating a disability-friendly simple switch.

A short time ago, Aleh, Israel's leading chain of large, closed institutions for people with disabilities honored a donor from England who passed away in June. She had been eulogized on Aleh's website. To mark the end of the shloshim period -...

Mar 6, 2020, 9:22 AM

Let’s stop idealizing institutions for people with disabilities

It was with deep dismay that I read the op-ed "An Oasis of Caring in the Desert" , in which Michal Divon describes her week of volunteering at Aleh Negev, a large, closed and isolated institution housing 220 children...

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A Jerusalem-based freelance writer, law graduate and commentator on the challenges facing people with special needs, Frimet Roth together with her husband Arnold co-founded The Malki Foundation (www.kerenmalki.org) in 2001. It provides concrete support for Israeli families of all faiths who care at home for a special-needs child. The Roths' daughter Malki was murdered at the age of 15 in the terrorist bombing of the Sbarro pizzeria. Her personal blog, under the title "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly", is at http://frimetgbu.blogspot.com The views expressed here are personal.

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