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Nov 30, 2023, 11:06 PM

After October 7th: I watch my children play hide and go seek: The older ones run to their favorite spots, behind the door or under the stairwell, while my youngest laughs hysterically wrapped as a burrito in a fleece blanket....

Oct 18, 2023, 11:48 PM

Tears of comprehension

I let myself cry today. I walked away from my 8-year-old daughter and put my head on my friend's shoulder and wept. It took me a week to allow myself to cry. A week to only begin to comprehend the...

Jun 28, 2023, 9:38 PM

Beer Sheva Pride

An elderly man walked, with obvious difficulty, out of his house and now stood a couple meters from the road. With his walker in front of him, and back slightly hunched over, he slowly brought his hands together and...

Apr 25, 2023, 2:29 PM

Taking Back the Flag

My first Yom Haatzmaut in Israel was 19 years ago when I was an exchange student at Hebrew University. Celebrating into the early morning, I was filled with euphoria as I danced with the Israeli flag with pride on...

Mar 29, 2023, 3:14 AM

Protesting into the night

342 WhatsApp messages. While I was meeting up with a friend, protests spontaneously erupted on the streets. By the time I looked at my phone, it had ended. 342 WhatsApp messages. 3,000 people. Beer Sheva, dubbed by the Economist "a sleepy town,"...

Feb 26, 2023, 12:33 AM

My dad was a high school teacher, and I was in elementary school when his teachers' union went on strike. It was winter in Canada, and every day for about a month, my dad would put on his warmest...

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About Me

Moved from Canada to Beer Sheva in 2006 to study my MSW at Ben Gurion and have been living in Beer Sheva ever since- now with my husband and three children. I work as a social worker at Women's Spirit.