Nurit Bachrach

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Apr 24, 2022, 7:30 AM

The Child with No Name

My mother celebrated her 70th birthday in Jerusalem on a crisp winter evening in December 1995. The caterers had set out the food, the music was playing, her friends and children and grandchildren had arrived, but we were unable...

Apr 8, 2021, 12:14 AM

Getting to ‘Never Again’ — what needs to change?

When Mrs Martha Wise (nee Weiss) — whom we simply knew as Judy’s mum — decided to tell her story, we were a group of 12-year-old kids in the religious Zionist Bnei Akiva movement. It was Melbourne, circa 1973,...

Nov 8, 2020, 9:02 PM

Not Kristallnacht but Kristalltag in Offenbach

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My father, Hans Bachrach, was a persistent man. When his father, my grandfather, was taken to Dachau a day or two after Kristallnacht, my 16 year old father went to the police station every day to advocate for his...

Oct 8, 2020, 10:09 AM

Sunset on Hoshana Raba

Hoshanah Raba 1942: the day that my grandparents' transport arrived in Treblinka, where they were almost certainly gassed on arrival. We grew up knowing that they were victims of the Shoah, but it was only after 74 years that...

Oct 5, 2020, 9:03 AM

Covidocy : Age of Idiocy

We are living in the “Age of Idiocy”. The headlines are incomprehensible. News headlines on the second day of the Sukkot holiday trumpet the ignominious retreat of the Israeli Police Force trying to enforce corona social distancing regulations in Synagogues...

Apr 14, 2020, 2:35 PM

Harav Bakshi Doron of Blessed Memory and Agunot

In 1996, my father, of blessed memory, had an audience with Rav Bakshi Doron, of blessed memory. ‘HaRav,’ my father pleaded, ‘we need you to find a halachic solution for the agunot . They are suffering’ A sincere and genuine man,...

Apr 4, 2020, 9:28 PM

So What Do We Do Now?

My father’s 99-year-old cousin lives in London by herself and was planning to be celebrating her 100th birthday after Pesach with her family. I called her from Jerusalem. “I was born during the depression, my parents were murdered during the...

Mar 16, 2020, 9:35 AM

Virus and Mediation, A Pox on both your Houses

The Coronavirus has brought our thriving dynamic world here in Israel to a grinding halt. Our children serving in the army have been told that all leave, including the cherished “Shabbatot-Weekend leave” has been canceled for at least a...

Oct 20, 2019, 11:34 PM

Why don’t you want to pick olives with us?

"We know a place where we can pick olives." A friend suggested. "The owners have invited people to come and pick the olives and take them home with them". This was a generous tempting offer that I received over the...

Oct 19, 2019, 8:35 PM

Hoshana Rabba, Redemption Treblinka: 3 Generations

Since the Stolperstein were laid outside the home that my father grew up in, and from where my grandparents were taken to their death at Treblinka, I have been thinking even more deeply about my identity and the identity...

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About Me

Nurit Bachrach made Aliya from Australia in 1985. She is a qualified lawyer who worked for 10 years as a public prosecutor in Israel, founded the Mosaica Center of Conflict Resolution by Agreement in 2003 and has been the executive director of Mosaica , Religion, Society and State since 2016. She lives with her family in Jerusalem.

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