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Jan 13, 2015, 5:08 PM

Striking a match to discover what the dark clouds hide

Nov 22, 2014, 11:55 PM

Let Ugly Tears Fall

I’ve always admired the wailers of the world. The sun-soaked, wrinkled women who carry the weight of whole worlds on their shoulders and behind their eyes. The ones you see at the Western Wall in Jerusalem or any other...

May 5, 2014, 11:34 AM

I’m an immigrant, not a foreigner

Today is a fortunate day for people like me who chose this life and this land from outside of her soil. I have lost neither son nor spouse in the field or on a bus ride home. I am...

Mar 5, 2014, 12:05 PM

Shhhhh.. you’re praying too loud

Who am I to assume that my spiritual process is more valuable or urgent than the lady next to me?

Dec 12, 2013, 3:19 PM

I was raised on great music. I knew all the words to “Chantilly Lace” and “American Pie” before I could recite the pledge of allegiance. Our bed time standards included “Sweet Baby James,” “Bobby Mcgee”and “There’s Whiskey in the...

May 3, 2013, 1:24 PM

Thanks for the Mammaries

(illustrative image via Shutterstock)

When you're having that medical test, the one where you find out if you're gonna die, at which point do you call your mother?

Nov 13, 2012, 2:51 AM

Heartbeat of the Homeland

I’m on vacation. I’m in the U.S. on a Momma-daughter bat mitzvah trip with my biggest girl. We came to celebrate her passage into young womanhood by getting seriously loved up by her grandparents, aunties and uncles, eat obscene...

Sep 22, 2012, 11:07 PM

Making out with G-d

Hey, it’s not always soft and fuzzy, or even screen-worthy, but it’s real, and it’s fertile ground for some steamy stuff

Sep 16, 2012, 3:04 PM

Dimmer switches and stillness: How I greet the new year

Greeting the new year after the death of a close friend

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About Me

Sarah Zadok is a Jewish educator and lecturer, and a freelance writer. See more of her work at www.sarahzadok.com. She lives in the Golan Heights with her husband and five children. Her life’s playlist includes Shlomo Katz, Mumford and Sons and Janis Joplin (she finds no conflict in that).