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Jul 5, 2024, 12:44 AM
The Other Mother
One long-ago morning during the Hezbollah War, when the skies were baby-blue, clouds drifted sweetly, and fragrant trees were reborn and blossoming, a sleep-deprived mother, running on E for Empty, was rushing out to the cheder bus, her 6-year-old...
Apr 15, 2024, 12:08 AM
Springtime in Jerusalem 5784
It wasn’t yet hot, and wasn’t cold. Not young anymore, but not really old, either. People are suffering, yes. It’s true. The world’s on fire. What can you do. So she took herself shopping, first time in a while, to do something nice, just...
Jul 12, 2023, 9:59 AM
When grownups are helpless
One of the standard hallmarks of childhood is a sense of powerlessness, in relation both to one’s family and to the world at large. To be a small person surrounded by giants is an experience all humans share –...
May 3, 2023, 2:58 PM
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All earth to love: My father slowed the nuclear arms race
The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty he negotiated still stands, but it has too much lethal wiggle room when it comes to protecting what really matters
Jan 30, 2023, 5:18 PM
Conversing with Arab Cab Drivers
The saying goes that if you want to get the news, ask a cab driver. Here in Jerusalem, whenever I get into a taxi and the driver is an Arab, I usually see if it's possible to start a conversation....
Oct 18, 2022, 1:14 AM
A watch amidst the galaxies
For quite some time, I’d been on the lookout for a new watch, and while out shopping on Pico with the children during summer vacation, I spotted quite a nice one. It wasn’t what I’d had in mind, exactly. The...
Oct 15, 2021, 4:58 PM
What the cow does
In an old neighborhood of Jerusalem, I stood with my daughter strapped to me in a Snugly baby-carrier, waiting to speak with a certain renowned rabbi. One of his assistants hurried out of the rabbi’s house and stopped for...
Sep 20, 2021, 1:21 PM
Do Angels Need to Dance?
One evening during Sukkot, at the Simchat Beit HaSho'evah celebration held annually at Neve Yerushalaim, a Jerusalem women's seminary, my daughters and I engaged in four or five hours of non-stop dancing. The boomingly loud music, provided as it is...
Dec 7, 2020, 5:47 PM
Flames unseen
"If Christians knew the effect of church bells on the Jewish soul, they would ring them all day long." Rav Yisrael Salanter , 19th century. December was the beautiful season. Twinkling lights and golden bells, red and green and mistletoe. Storefronts...
Mar 2, 2020, 7:12 AM
To Be or Not to Be
It has always struck me as bizarre, mysterious, and absurd that Israel's essential right to exist is ever a question in the eyes of the world. That which for other nations is normally a given, is for us something...
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