Sara K. Eisen

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Jun 1, 2025, 4:03 PM

Connecting to the land: Israeli agriculture for growth and healing

I went looking for hope for the country, and found it with young people, in the fields, under an open sky, nary a cell phone in sight (Shavuot)

Jun 29, 2024, 9:23 AM

It’s time to talk about aging while Western

Well! This might be a good time to revisit something no one ever wants to talk about: our relationship to the elderly in Western society. Our widespread denial about aging is many problems deep, and, since COVID, has been...

Jun 13, 2024, 5:09 PM

8 months after the 7th

Photo credit - Maor Eisen

The harm to our place and our bodies leaves us once again walking on that proverbial narrow bridge at the edges of time

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

The real Lex Luthor

Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman on the cover of July 10's Entertainment Weekly, flanked by Ben Affleck's Batman (L) and Henry Cavill's Superman (R) (YouTube screenshot)

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

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

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About Me

Sara K. Eisen is a veteran journalist; creative / marketing / brand director; content consultant; and communications strategist. Also a mother, community activist, and mentor.