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Apr 21, 2016, 3:04 PM
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The sounds of Jerusalem
The cacophony of constant building in the holy city reveals a foundation of hope that trumps every siren of terror
Nov 8, 2015, 12:16 PM
The hardest thing about Aliyah
People told me, they warned me, ‘Israel is hard.’ So I shouldn’t complain. I knew what I was coming to. But they didn’t tell me properly. They didn’t really explain. The hardest thing about Aliyah is the laundry. Now I...
Sep 12, 2015, 10:49 PM
Dear God
Dear God It’s a few days before Rosh Hashana and I’m not ready. I haven’t gone to Slichot in the wee hours of the night. I haven’t sat in self reflection with lists of my good, bad and fugly qualities....
Sep 2, 2015, 10:47 AM
Making Aliyah
So we've made Aliyah. Aliyah is such a loaded word. Literally ‘aliyah’ means to ‘go up’. There’s only one country we ‘go up’ to and that’s Eretz Yisrael - the land of Israel. We traverse the world upwards physically in...
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About Me
Sarah Sassoon is a freelance writer, Jewish thinker and wandering Jew. Emigrating from Sydney Australia to Johannesburg, South Africa and finally making Aliyah to Jerusalem with her family this summer of 2015.