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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

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

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

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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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.