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Talyah Ginsberg

A comedic survival guide to a country that breaks you, rebuilds you, and calls it Tuesday.

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Jun 4, 2026, 9:46 AM

Hineni: The Opposite of Distraction

People have a remarkable talent for being somewhere other than where they actually are. We stand in Shul thinking about lunch. We eat lunch thinking about work. We sit at work thinking about retirement. We finally go on holiday and...

May 29, 2026, 6:16 PM

The Israelites had miracles. They wanted cucumbers. And garlic

If Beha'alotecha teaches us anything, it is that human beings can survive slavery, witness miracles, receive Divine revelation, eat food delivered directly from Heaven and still find something to complain about. Actually, scratch that. The Jewish people can survive slavery, witness...

May 24, 2026, 12:26 PM

The ATS CV Hustle: How LinkedIn Turns Unemployment Into a Sales Funnel

The moment you switch on LinkedIn’s “Open to Work” banner, something fascinating happens. Within hours, complete strangers begin appearing in your inbox offering “incredible opportunities” with “prestigious international companies” for “life-changing salaries.” At first, it feels flattering. Then comes the catch. “Your...

May 21, 2026, 11:07 AM

Living Alone Made Me Dangerous

Somewhere between heartbreak, solitude and survival, I stopped confusing male attention with emotional safety. At 11:43 on a Tuesday night, a married man of 20 years sent me a message from Tinder asking what I was looking for. The honest answer...

May 15, 2026, 6:43 PM

I Thought I Knew How to Write Until I Tried Scriptwriting

There’s a very specific kind of psychological collapse that happens after you hit “send” on a script you’ve spent months bleeding into. Not an email. Not a WhatsApp. Not even a Times of Israel piece where you can at least...

May 11, 2026, 6:44 PM

What Happens When You Stop Believing Your Own Worst Thoughts

There’s a particular kind of madness that happens in a bathroom at 7:12am. Fluorescent lighting that could double as an interrogation tactic, a toothbrush you’re irrationally annoyed with, and a woman smiling at herself in the mirror like she’s...

May 4, 2026, 1:35 PM

I Stopped Eating Animals. Fish Was the Lie I Kept Telling Myself.

There are people who become vegetarians after reading philosophy. Or watching lectures. Or having long, morally rigorous debates with themselves about suffering, ethics, and the meaning of life. I saw a vein. That’s it. That’s the origin story. No TED Talk....

May 1, 2026, 7:48 PM

I Lost a Moment That Was About to Matter

There are losses you expect. And then some losses barely exist long enough to be real… and still manage to gut you. This week, I lost a dog. Not my dog. Not even a dog I had met. A dog that existed for me...

Apr 28, 2026, 5:31 PM

Speed Dating: Now With Built-In Rejection and Complimentary Humiliation

Last night I tried Coronacrush speed dating, which is an algorithm-based romantic experience designed to remove inefficiency from modern dating and replace it with something far more honest: rapid-fire disappointment. It begins, as all questionable life choices do, with a...

Apr 19, 2026, 2:49 PM

Not Tonight. Not for These Odds. Casual Sex, Serious Effort.

There comes a moment—usually somewhere between wrestling a bra clasp that has declared ideological independence and noticing your eyeliner has quietly defected into abstract art—when a woman has to ask herself a deeply philosophical question: is this worth it? Lately,...

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About Me

Talyah Ginsberg is a writer, cat whisperer, and unapologetic Zionist living in Ra’anana. She documents the beautiful disaster of Israeli life with wit, grit, and just enough hope to stay functional. Her essays mix comedy with truth, despair with devotion, and politics with the kind of honesty that makes people nervous.

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