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Rea Bochner

Feb 10, 2025, 1:36 PM

‘Our arm hurts’: Grieving for Eli Sharabi

Released hostage Eli Sharabi reunites with his mother Chana and sister Osnat at an army facility near the Gaza border, after 491 days in Hamas captivity, on February 8, 2025. His wife and two daughters were murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (IDF).

If you're a Jew and you're in pain, then so am I

Oct 10, 2021, 12:45 PM

Sunday is the New Monday: Thoughts from a New Olah

This week is a significant milestone for us: three months since we made Aliyah. I neglect to say “became Israeli” because even though we have gotten our Israeli citizenship, truly becoming Israeli is a shift in mindset that takes...

Jun 1, 2021, 12:53 AM

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America is over. I’m moving to Israel

I don’t know if another Holocaust is possible in the US, but after what I’ve seen lately, I do believe that at some point Jews will no longer be welcome here

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Rea Bochner is an author, speaker, and mold-breaker whose work has appeared on Tablet, The Forward, Aish.com, Chabad.org, in the New York Times Bestselling "Small Miracles" series, and on her blog, reabochner.com. Her acclaimed memoir, "The Cape House," debuted in 2017. Rea lives in Israel with her husband and children.

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