Hillel Damron

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May 5, 2024, 4:59 PM

The Secret My Mother—A Holocaust Survivor—Revealed

My mother, Hedva Hektin, passed away in Tel Aviv last October at the age of 96, a week before the terrible Hamas terrorist attack that has brought upon us this latest war. I’m convinced, mind and heart, that she...

Nov 7, 2020, 12:21 AM

Why Most Jews Voted for Biden

Because they are educated and informed. Because they leave QAnon and conspiracy theories to the uneducated and uninformed. They don’t eat what Fox News tells them and go to sleep happy, but check other sources and watch other channels....

Oct 2, 2020, 9:03 AM

American Jews Are Suckers No More

Israel, are you listening: “The times they are a-changin'.” So sang Bob Dylan in the 60s, and here we are some 60 years later and the song keeps playing in my head. Because when it comes to Israel, attitudes...

Sep 25, 2020, 9:37 AM

Paradise Lost — The Ashkenazi-Mizrachi Fault Line

My childhood village is so far away these days, yet I never really left it. I’ve been aware of this notion, this conundrum for a long time, yet the stories about ‘The Battle Over the Hassi Stream’ between the...

Feb 27, 2016, 7:14 PM

Evolution not Revolution

There are eight reasons out of ten for me to like Bernie Sanders, vote for him, and recommend him to be our next president. And yet – I will vote for Hillary Clinton. Here’s why: While I feel the...

Feb 26, 2016, 8:34 AM

The Battle over the Dining Room

A painful debate erupted in kibbutz Heftziba -- reflected lately in a couple of articles in Haaretz -- regarding the plan to demolish the old, historic dining room, and together with it giving up on “historical values,” for the sake of...

Nov 22, 2015, 7:28 PM

The War on Bullshit

Pardon my French, but that’s what Jon Stewart – whom I enjoyed tremendously the last sixteen years, and whom I consider the brightest star of American Televising of the new millennia – commanded us to do. Here are some of...

Sep 20, 2015, 7:25 PM

When it comes to the Iran Nuclear Deal, the victory in the American Congress of the peace and diplomacy camp, which was led into battle -- and make no mistake about it, it was a fierce, and ‘bloody’ battle -- by...

Aug 23, 2015, 9:34 PM

Thieves in the Night

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;” Peter iii, King James Bible We shake off the old life which has grown rancid on us, and start from the beginning. We don’t want to...

Jul 24, 2015, 12:53 AM

To Kill a Messenger

No, this is not another critique of Harper Lee’s new/old book “Go Set a Watchman,” and its relation to her classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Though, in a twisted sort of way, there is a connection. So much...

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About Me

Hillel Damron is the author of novels, essays, and short stories—one which won the 2011 ‘Moment Magazine Memoire Contest.’ He studied films at the ‘London Film School’ and became the film director of TV documentaries, a feature film, and video shorts. He was the Executive Director of the ‘Hillel House at UC Davis'. He was an elite IDF paratroops unit officer who was wounded in battle; he was born in kibbutz Hephzibah to parents who survived the Holocaust.