Rebecca Bermeister

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Jul 24, 2017, 5:23 PM

Murder on the Temple Mount – Challenging the Status Quo

A few weeks ago, my sixteen year old son asked my brother how he had become religious. My brother described growing up in Sydney following our family's immigration from South Africa in 1978. He explained how he had become...

Jan 25, 2017, 1:33 PM

Like lambs to the slaughter

I should have been there. Showing solidarity with thousands of women all over the world, taking to the streets to protest injustices perpetrated against women since time immemorial; this is my thing. But somehow the issues all got mangled...

Mar 25, 2015, 11:57 AM

Made in Palestine

My daughter Beth lives in Sydney in a shared house with a large Muslim family - supposedly every Jewish mothers worst nightmare. But I'm not that kind of Jewish mother and they are not that kind of Muslim family...

Dec 8, 2014, 1:01 PM

The Lost Tribes – Our Fifty Million Taliban Brothers

My daughter's first pre-school friend was a beautiful, dark skinned child with a pretty, round face and large, soft black eyes. I was equally attracted to her mother, Miriam, who strapped her baby firmly onto her back with a...

Dec 1, 2014, 10:17 AM

Preaching to the converted

The original title of this piece was "Israel commits worst genocide ever" - rejected by the Times of Israel editor as being too inflammatory because of the play on the word "worst", which of course was the point. I...

Nov 3, 2014, 10:36 AM

Where left meets right

We oppose gun laws, we support women's rights, equal wages, gay rights and animal welfare. We support sustainability, we oppose the pharmaceutical industry and the fast food industry and we eat organic and local where possible. We encourage think...

Oct 27, 2014, 11:44 AM

It takes a Village ~ How Michelle Levy and Gilad Shalit came to belong to us all.

On Saturday night an eleven year old Jewish girl from Sydney's Eastern Suburbs had a fight with a member of her family and stormed out the house. Anyone who has ever had an eleven year old daughter needs no...

Aug 28, 2014, 10:27 AM

Future women of Gaza

When they eventually fathom the enormity of the betrayal by their leaders and the world, they will weep

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About Me

Born in South Africa, raised in Sydney and still shocked but recovering in Israel, Rebecca Bermeister writes about all things Israeli from the arsim at the hairdresser, to the politics of the Temple Mount. Exploring the brilliant tapestry that makes up this fascinating country, her short pieces are both poignant and amusing.