Miriam Burstein, at The Blogs

Dec 18, 2018, 3:02 PM

Searching for chametz on the 10th of Tevet

Illustrative. Eating a cream cheese sandwich. (iStock)

If I don't find that missing sandwich, will it fester, grow mold, and attract ants? And what other decay is lurking beneath the surface?

Oct 13, 2015, 12:38 PM

After the Holidays

It’s time to start that diet, to clean the house, to get back to work and school, to do home renovations and clothing alterations. All of the improvements we want to make in our lives, we tend to push...

Jan 15, 2015, 11:21 AM

The World at 86 Centimeters

“It’s good to be short sometimes. You can reach things in the low cabinets more easily.” The line didn’t make much sense, but it made a few hundred people chuckle for two seconds. That was all the time I...

About Me

Miriam Burstein is a mother, teacher, freelance writer and translator and blogger at israelisalad.net. She holds a Master's degree from the Shaindy Rudoff Creative Writing Program in Bar Ilan University. A US ex-pat, she has been living in Israel for fifteen years.