Leigh Hartzman, at The Blogs

Leigh Hartzman

May 4, 2024, 9:19 PM

Finding My Voice as a ‘3G’ Holocaust Survivor

My teenage son’s teacher wrote in the class Whatsapp Group a week before Yom Hashoa: "Second reminder: We are looking for a Holocaust survivor or descendant to tell their story to the class on Holocaust Memorial Day. Contact me privately...

May 16, 2021, 11:58 AM

An unexpected friendship

“I’ll leave you the key. I’m going to the office today.” “Office? Since when did you stop working from home?” asked Miryam. “Last month, I got a new job that pays much better.” “I knew it would work! Every day, I hold...

May 11, 2020, 11:48 PM

Covid-19 & freelancing: 4 areas with huge gig potential

Living with uncertainty has been one of the hardest parts of this coronavirus crisis. Once, it was mundane and predictable to get up every morning, go to the same job, and earn the same paycheck to do the same...

Apr 16, 2020, 8:31 AM

A business of her own

“Do you have any assets?” “What do you mean?” I asked the volunteer lawyer sitting across from me at the WIZO office. “I mean, do you own anything? Property, a car, investments?” “Just the house and the two cars. But they belong...

Feb 2, 2020, 7:15 PM

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Confessions of a wannabe Zionist

Detail of poster showing Paul Newman as Ari Ben Canaan in the 1960 movie Exodus

This virile Israeli archetype fantasy was going to take care of me -- until it didn't and I had to forge my own path.

About Me

Leigh is a Communities Manager at Waze, Google. She moved to Israel from Toronto, Canada, in 2001, right smack in the middle of the Second Intifada. She’s obsessed with Jewish family history and uncovering the secret lives of the heroic Bubies and Zaidas that came before us.