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Aug 7, 2024, 1:38 PM

This is not our first extermination rodeo

I look out my office window at the sky urgently searching the horizon for infiltrating UAVs or rockets and the corresponding reaction of our heroic Iron Dome. I am hoping to go away this weekend to a hotel I...

Oct 15, 2023, 1:12 PM

Right now, here in Israel

Life as we know it has changed. Sadly though, these are words we have heard throughout history. As an American and an Israeli, in my lifetime it was said in the days following 9/11. I have heard these words...

Aug 15, 2023, 12:17 AM

Hope Springs Eternal

Last week I was lucky enough to celebrate 18 (Chai!) years together with my wife, whom I met in 2005 and legally married in New York in 2012. Some of the readers here may remember that soon after, about...

Mar 1, 2023, 7:08 PM

Elan Ganeles a”h: An inextinguishable light

I cannot believe that it is 2023 and Jews are still being killed simply because they are Jews. What is wrong with people, with radical Muslims who hate us so much that our lives are valueless for them? I...

Oct 14, 2022, 12:55 AM

Chana Stubenhaus: Woman of Light, Love, and Laughter

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"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Dylan Thomas There are people who exist in this world simply to bring light...

Sep 22, 2020, 2:40 PM

“Ayecha?” – “איכה?” – “Where are you?”

This was my first Rosh Hashana in Israel in over 30 years. We headed right into a closure. It was not different because of the closure, it was different because of the shul I attended. Yes, of course the...

Jun 17, 2020, 12:00 PM

Loving Israel in the time of Corona

"Why would you make aliyah now?" Everyone, I mean everyone, kept asking us that. At one point my partner even answered, "Because we are crazy!" Well, yes and no. Yes, it is absolutely insane to pick yourselves up, take...

Mar 23, 2020, 8:18 PM

Willing A Better World After COVID-19

So many people have what to say about this virus, COVID-19. So many people are at home (hopefully) and tapping away at keyboards about their thoughts and opinions. I too am here tapping away now. Maybe it is keeping...

Jul 20, 2019, 1:07 AM

In the Name of My Father: HaRav Moshe Meiri, A”H

My father left us when I was seventeen years old. My brother had just turned sixteen and my parents had been married by then for almost twenty-three years. To say that my upbringing was tumultuous would be an understatement....

Apr 24, 2018, 8:39 PM

A Place in Our Heart and Shul

Looking towards the future, as any Zionist would, I dream of making Aliyah. I tear up at any display of the Israeli blue and white, of Yom Ha'atzmaut events, at any singing of Hatikva, or any Facebook videos by...

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About Me

Shlomit is a former career prosecutor - one who always believes in seeking justice for others. She holds a degree in Judaic Studies from Brooklyn College and a law degree from Hofstra (1998). She is a yeshiva high school graduate (Central/YUHSG,1988). In 2016 Shlomit spoke on a panel at the RCA (Rabbinical Council of America) on the necessity for inclusion of the LGBTQ community in the Orthodox world and the impact that exclusion has caused to that community. Since then, she has been advocating for their full acceptance in the frum world and blogging her thoughts. On June 9, 2020, she and her partner realized their dream of making Aliyah, joining their extended families, and most excitedly, their daughter, a former lone soldier and combat support medic in the IDF, and of whom they could not be prouder. Shlomit currently works for an NGO that fights terror and antisemitism worldwide. After the events of October 7, she was called to return to a world where she could once again fight the good fight - this time on behalf of her fellow Jews.