Michal Yudelman O’Dwyer

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Apr 17, 2019, 2:14 PM

Why I hate Passover/ Living in the bubble

Illustrative. Screenshot from video shows anti-Occupation activists touring the West Bank with Israeli officers. (Source: Jewish News)

The militant gloating at our ancient enemy's downfall in the most influential Jewish text has no place in modern Israel

Oct 23, 2018, 6:54 PM

Victims always remember / living in the bubble

"Let’s take out the story about Rabin," my publisher’s editor suggested, as we discussed a short-story collection I’m about to publish. “The topic of Rabin’s murder has been done to death,” she said. Has it? Since I stood on the...

Jul 31, 2018, 1:51 PM

Welcome to Gilead/ Living in the bubble

You realize that from now on I’m a second class citizen, my non-Jewish husband said to me on the morning after the Knesset passed the racist nation-state law, which gives priority to the country's Jewish citizens over citizens of...

May 20, 2018, 10:55 PM

The Cinderella syndrome

It was hard to avoid the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan (Rachel from Suits) on Saturday. It was broadcast live and repeated all day on the British Sky network, on CNN and even on Israel's Channel 11. All...

Apr 15, 2018, 6:31 PM

Making us proud / Living in the bubble

The roar of jet planes thundering over the city silenced the chatter in our local café‚ last Thursday morning. "Off to bomb something in Syria?" I shouted at my husband in a gap between the roars. Many people at...

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About Me

Michal Yudelman O’Dwyer was born on a kibbutz in the Negev, served in the army, and studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, University of Chicago and CCNY. She has worked as a journalist, columnist, and translator, and published 10 short stories. A collection of her short stories, entitled “Somebody I used to know,” is to be published (in Hebrew) in a few weeks. Lives in Tel Aviv with the Irish journalist Thomas O’Dwyer and three cats.