Inna Yoffe Veytsman

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Sep 7, 2024, 3:25 PM

Teachers’ Strike – My View on the Most Controversial Issue

A week has passed since the Teachers Union announced a strike in high schools across the country. The major stumbling block is the issue of personal contracts by which the teachers are to be employed, akin to the same...

Apr 13, 2024, 4:37 PM

Netanyahu: The tragic hero of our time

Photo is from: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/05/israel-gaza-war-netanyahu-strategy/

I turn the news on, and a man in a black shirt appears, heavy bags under his eyes, it seems like he lost some weight. There is sadness, grief and perhaps a touch of embarrassment in his usually so...

Oct 15, 2023, 11:51 AM

Moral consistency vs. moral clarity, after October 7, 2023

I to my side call the meek and the mild You to your side call the Word By virtue of suffering I claim to have won You claim to have never been heard -- "Different Sides" Leonard Cohen. The deadliest terrorist act in the...

May 22, 2019, 11:33 AM

Philip Roth and Leonard Cohen – A Posthumous Comparison

It is the first anniversary of Philip Roth’s death. He passed away on this day last year. It has been two and a half years since Leonard Cohen is gone, too. They are two Jewish American writers, who touched...

Feb 6, 2019, 11:42 PM

My Aliyah – An Ascent From Darkness

My knees were beginning to hurt. I was squatting for long minutes while picking oranges off the ground, as my mom was plucking them off the trees, standing on a ladder. The ones that fell down my job was...

Nov 28, 2018, 2:34 PM

My kids are not deficient, they’re bilingual!

Illustrative. Students at the Harlem Hebrew Language Academy are immersed in a bilingual environment from the moment they walk through the doors -- even the kindergarteners. (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)

The teacher thinks my kindergarten kids should have Hebrew as their mother tongue, but our Russian home is the best gift we could give them

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I am an English teacher, married with twins.