Sari Ellen, at The Blogs

Nov 3, 2023, 6:01 PM

Israeli Street Cat!!

Photo Credit: Sari Ellen, Ramat Gan, 2022

Read the News Read the news Watch the news Check messages Pray Read the news Watch the news Check messages Despair Read the news Watch the news Check messages Volunteer Read the news Watch the news Check messages Grieve Read the news Watch the news Check messages Bless creation Read the news Watch the news Check messages Question creation Read the news Watch the news Check...

Jul 23, 2023, 8:32 PM

A True Leader Would Care!

Protestors gather on streets and towns throughout Israel. This photo was taken in Givatyaim in June 2023. Photo credit: Sari Ellen

A true leader would care when hundreds of thousands of citizens protest in sweltering heat, 29 weeks straight gathering on Derech HaShalom, דרך השלוםת, in English "The Way of Peace." Day after day, week after week, month after month. Heart and soul of...

Feb 26, 2023, 8:26 AM

Shut-Down Nation

"Israeli Democracy" Tel Aviv Beach, Tel Aviv, Israel, February 25, 2023 / Adar 4, 5783 (Sari Ellen)

“Democracy?” said the Likud Customer Service Rep. “You don’t need it.” “But Israel's a Parliamentary Democracy—.” “Democracy, shlock-ocracy. Here, try on radical fringe politics, it’s the best.” "You’re disrespecting our values: equal rights, morality, justice, compassion—” “Radical fringe politics will look great on...

Jan 4, 2022, 5:05 AM

Of Pita and Passion

Walking by a Tel Aviv food stand at 9 pm tonight I realized I was starving, angry, disappointed, lonely, worried about world events, exhausted…. and cold. So despite the way the shekel is clobbering the dollar — which reduces my...

Mar 27, 2021, 5:07 PM

Chag Sameach Passover: The ache and the joy

Lockdown in a sunless micro-studio ain’t my cuppa tea. I gained ten pounds and lost a year. But, hey, most of us lost a year. And 2.77 million lost their lives because of COVID 19. Those of us who’re...

Dec 29, 2020, 10:35 PM

The People of Forever are bored

Only the third day of the third Israeli lockdown, but it feels like forever. Like the movie “Groundhog Day” but with mornings which yawn like toothless mouths and newsfeeds recycling threats: terrorist groups counting and recounting their missiles, predictions...

Jul 21, 2020, 7:14 PM

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My neighbor’s cough

Sand Daffodil, the Negev
(Photo: Sari Friedman, 2019)

Musings from a Tel Aviv apartment that gets fresh air, but no sunlight, as I can't escape hearing the incessant symptoms of possible COVID-19 through the walls

Oct 13, 2019, 5:59 AM

Supporting the Kurds

I start my day protesting in front of the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv. I'm here because Turkey is invading Kurdistan and I want to show my support for the Kurds, a diverse but cohesive, mutually-respectful, democratic group. You...

May 2, 2019, 8:21 PM

After the Siren

During the two-minute siren that goes off today at 10 a.m. in Israel on Yom HaShoah, the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust, I stand barefoot and motionless in my home. In solidarity with my brothers and sisters who...

About Me

Sari Ellen's writing appears in the New York Times, Beloit Fiction Journal, Blue Lake Review, So It Goes, Satirist, Daily Freier, Ilanot Review, Huffpo Canada and in other webzines and journals. The first chapter of her (not yet published) novel is in the November 2020 "Woven Tale Press."

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