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Mar 24, 2020, 11:26 PM
The Steepest Curve
The indifferent sun melts into the horizon and another day has ended. What day? I cannot tell you for sure. But after something like a week into Corona Time, here’s what I can tell you -- We have a...
Apr 6, 2016, 7:09 PM
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The real Lex Luthor
In a world that conflates progress and sabotage, earnest, do-gooding heroes still lead the charge to fight evil
Apr 15, 2015, 11:23 PM
Israeli Tax Season: This Week
Israeli Journalist Tsur Ehrlich published a poem in Makor Rishon two years ago that moved me enough to translate it last year. The Hebrew appears as an image below my adaptation. I have Ehrlich's permission to post. Israeli Tax Season One Week in...
Apr 12, 2015, 10:33 PM
Freedom and Guilt: A Celebration
This evening in Israel, large segments of the population aged 25-55 are getting ready to celebrate the Festival of Freedom, Productivity, and Guilt. This festival is marked twice annually; once on September 1st, and once now, the day after...
Jul 25, 2014, 4:18 AM
Shooting ourselves?
You know the world has gone crazy when I am compared to Barack Obama re: Mandela SelfieGate. Really Australia? I’m much more of a Clinton girl. I was completely surprised to discover earlier today that our Bomb Shelter Selfie Facebook...
Jul 7, 2014, 1:47 PM
Emotional rescue?
Jagger strutted through TLV and tweeted through Jerusalem a month ago. It was only a month ago. For five minutes, we were Europe: a kind of messed up Western place with Eastern tensions; no built-in closets; pretty, skinny people...
Jun 25, 2014, 9:58 AM
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Things we tell ourselves so we can sleep
The kidnapping of the 3 teens raises profound questions for parents raising their children in Israel by choice
Apr 27, 2014, 12:30 AM
Yom Ha’Shoah: How My Grandmother (and her descendants) Defeated Auschwitz
Yom Ha'Shoa is the day I most miss my grandma, Esther Klein, a survivor who did much more than survive. She taught me about living with complexity, dignity, joy, and strength. The following is an excerpt from my eulogy...
Apr 16, 2014, 10:14 PM
Calm Sunday and Good Enough Friday
Once we were slaves. Then there were miracles and revelations, a reluctant leader, and, as in any good coming of age story, a long road trip. We subsequently became a nation, complained a tremendous amount, inherited a beautiful homeland and...
Apr 10, 2014, 8:35 PM
Sea Change
Last week I dreamed there was an enormous, beautiful, leafy tree growing in the middle of my living room. The gardener and I were discussing what this meant for the other stuff in the house: for the roof, for...
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Sara K. Eisen is a veteran journalist; creative / marketing / brand director; content consultant; and communications strategist. Also a mother, community activist, and mentor.