Jolie Bain Pillsbury

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Nov 12, 2024, 3:24 PM

Standing Together

Yes, there were many empty seats in section F11 on the field at National’s Park on November 11, 2024. This year, unlike last year, we were not part of a large crowd marching on the mall in warm sunshine...

Apr 8, 2024, 11:57 PM

When will she see the sun again?

Screen shot by Jolie Bain Pillsbury, April 8, 2024 of DC NEWS NOW April 7, 2024 segment: Rally for the Hostages.

It is a good showing on the mall. There are thousands of us gathered. We march along the side of the reflecting pool. US and Israeli flags snap in the spring wind. We, the marchers, move peacefully towards the...

Apr 2, 2024, 7:12 AM

I am irritating my friends and family a bit more than usual lately. I rudely interrupt them every time they mention the “32,000 Gazans Killed in the War”. Each time, I stop them and say: didn’t you mean to...

Mar 31, 2024, 6:52 PM

Qatar, Kick Hamas Out Now!

It is now March 28, 2024. It has been 175 days since Carmel Gat, a beautiful young woman was kidnapped on October 7, 2023. She and 133 others are still held hostage by Hamas. Since November 30th 2023, no...

Mar 27, 2024, 2:57 AM

No Time to Abstain

I wake up every morning increasingly anxious about the waning support for Israel in America. Why? Because even though I have not personally experienced it yet, there is a rising tide of Jew-hatred, some of it violent, all of...

Mar 16, 2024, 3:38 PM

Stand with Israel

On a Wednesday morning in March my friend and I, two supporters of Israel from northern Virginia, make our way up the wide steps of the Longworth House Office Building. Built in the 1930’s, it is a neoclassical design...

Feb 19, 2024, 3:07 AM

Bring Them Home, Now!

The good news is, you can walk down M street in DC, carrying a large “Bring Them Home” poster and a small Israeli flag, and not cause a ripple. Which is also the bad news. It is hard to...

Feb 2, 2024, 6:39 PM

The newly opened National Library of Israel is clad in Jerusalem stone and sits amidst the central institutions of the state of Israel. It is across the street and down the hill from the Knesset, in walking distance from...

Jan 27, 2024, 10:19 PM

Writing on the Wall

“A nation is known not only for what it does but also for what it tolerates.” Kurt Tucholsky, a German Jew, wrote those words after the passage of the Nuremberg Race Laws in September of 1935. They are emblazoned high...

Jan 23, 2024, 7:25 PM

No degrees of separation

10 AM on Wednesday morning, January 10, 2024. I am standing in a hallway outside a ward of the Sheba hospital in Tel Aviv. Weeping, embarrassed. I am seventy-four. The two former IDF combat soldiers comforting me, seem very...

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About Me

Jolie Bain Pillsbury, Ph D. Retired, residing in Arlington, Virginia. Public and private sector career focused on producing measurable results through the development of cross-sector collaborative leadership skills. Author of “The Theory of Aligned Contributions” and “Results Based Facilitation: Books 1 & 2.