Rachel M. Roth

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Sep 2, 2024, 11:59 AM

Unity in this Moment

- "If we moved our soldiers out now and released dangerous people and then tried to move them back in in the future, we’d lose so many soldiers. It would be a disaster. We’d equal the number of hostages...

Apr 14, 2024, 2:57 PM

In every generation they try to destroy us

Last night, we experienced a taste of the miracle of the Exodus. וְהִיא שֶׁעָמְדָה לַאֲבוֹתֵינוּ וְלָנוּ שֶׁלֹּא אֶחָד בִּלְבָד עָמַד עָלֵינוּ לְכַלּוֹתֵנוּ אֶלָּא שֶׁבְּכָל דּוֹר וָדוֹר עוֹמְדִים עָלֵינוּ לְכַלּוֹתֵנוּ וְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מַצִּילֵנוּ מִיָּדָם We received shelter in place orders - וְאַתֶּ֗ם לֹ֥א תֵצְא֛וּ...

Feb 12, 2024, 12:09 PM

We come for each other

Israel has received much criticism for its continuing military operations in Rafah. I cannot stress enough that Israelis hate being in this position. We hate being at war. We hate losing and traumatizing our children; we hate the moral...

Dec 10, 2023, 11:39 AM

If we can avoid war, shouldn’t we?

We are the simple people on the frontlines against evil, fighting for humanity. That is why we fight

Nov 15, 2023, 10:48 AM

How Israel feels now

"Good neighbors even in hard times" street sign in Kiryat Tivon. Photo by author.

As if it required an equal, opposite reaction, Hamas's evil unleashed a fierce love - the open, visible, proactive goodness that is deep in all of us

Oct 22, 2023, 2:53 PM

Goodbye, Friend. A personal tribute to Sam Woll

Sam Woll had purple eyes and wild black curls. She was very beautiful. She was the very definition of life. If you met her once, you remember. Her laugh was a bit too loud always, and she wore her heart on...

Oct 18, 2023, 10:28 AM

Women who wage peace. I learned about this remarkable grassroots organization of Israeli women from diverse backgrounds (Jewish, Arab, Druze and Bedouin for example), through my cousin who is now a hostage of Hamas. In fact, many of the...

Oct 16, 2023, 11:41 AM

Facing our generational trauma

Our family, under attack, wonders how bad will it get? Should we leave our home? Our country? Should we separate from our children? Send them away somewhere safer? This was the deliberation of our family in Germany, 1939. They...

Oct 11, 2023, 12:04 PM

Being the light in this dark moment

“If everything around seems dark, look again, maybe you are the light,” -- Rumi We are experiencing an outpouring of love from the world. And it helps. It really helps. Not only because it helps alleviate the loneliness of grief,...

Feb 14, 2021, 9:35 AM

Facing another school reopening

Israeli elementary school students wearing protective face masks at school in Tel Aviv. (Chen Leopold/Flash 90)

Requiring (and enforcing!) masks and distancing would protect our children in school, so why are we either sending them back unprotected or keeping them home day after day?

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About Me

Dr Roth is a US-trained family physician with specialties in mental and global health. She made aliyah ten years ago, and lives in the north with her husband and four young children. Dr Roth currently practices in mental health both in Israel and to the US via telemedicine.