Libi Michelson, at The Blogs

Oct 26, 2023, 5:55 PM

Mesmerized by Bolero: A Wartime Interpretation

A few weeks ago, after getting Friday brunch with friends visiting from the US, we all decided to walk over to the Dizengoff Square fountain. My husband had reminded me the night before that the fountain plays music at...

Oct 23, 2023, 12:25 PM

Israel is at war and I can’t sleep: Thoughts at 5 a.m.

Israel is the smell of lavender laundry detergent wafting in the breeze. Israel is the sounds of ambulances and horns honking and the occasional 'Get out of my way!" erupting from a car window. Israel is caffe hafuch chazak and tea...

Aug 10, 2023, 12:56 PM

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Waiting in the melting pot that is the Interior Ministry

Illustrative. People line up outside the Interior Ministry office to renew their passports, in Tel Aviv, on May 14, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

I distract myself by watching the people in front me, wondering what brought them here and where they plan to go

Jun 18, 2023, 1:29 AM

Would a refrigerator mom want to eat her child?

I recently came upon two very different theories that somehow collided in my brain and I’ll tell you why: 1. Refrigerator mother theory In the 1940s, an Austrian psychiatrist, Leo Kanner, coined the term “Refrigerator mother” to explain a possible cause...

Jun 1, 2023, 6:05 PM

A discovery that rocked our world

A week after the world shut down, our lives really changed. For months, I knew something was different about my newborn baby. At 2 months, I told my trusted pediatrician that our baby wasn't meeting his tracking milestone, and I...

Nov 4, 2015, 12:59 AM

With Friends Like These: Are the Ultra Orthodox Pushing Us Out?

A group of men in black hats and white shirts decided recently to band together and decide for the community what was best for them. While their adherence to the Torah can be commended, the public criticism and rejection of their...

Oct 8, 2015, 8:18 PM

Utter Silence: Bibi Was Right

Last week, PM Benjamin Netanyahu gave a powerful 42 minute speech at the United Nations General Assembly. In it, he lambasted the world for keeping quiet while threats have been made towards the Jewish people. "Seventy years after the murder of 6 million Jews, Iran's...

Sep 4, 2015, 11:45 AM

A Chance to Protest the Tamimi Family

Last week the Daily Mail posted an article titled, "Extraordinary moment that desperate Palestinian women fought and BIT an Israeli soldier after he put boy with a broken arm in a headlock at gunpoint." The article detailed how an Israeli...

Aug 20, 2015, 12:57 PM

Negotiating with Terrorists

This week, after word spread that a Spanish Reggae festival, Rototom Sunsplash, had canceled Jewish-american singer Matisyahu's concert, the Jewish community was left angrily searching for a legitimate reason why. Matisyahu confirmed that pressure was put on him to...

Mar 24, 2015, 8:38 PM

The Oppressed Women of Israel

Last week, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Women in Beijing, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) issued a resolution concerning women’s rights and gender inequality across the globe....

About Me

Libi Michelson is a creative marketer and content writer. Raised by Israeli parents in the US, she made aliyah with her husband and two kids in 2021. Libi likes to write about being a working parent, parenting a child with special needs, and the struggles of being jewish, being a jewish mom and everything in between.

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