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Apr 21, 2026, 6:20 PM

Our shared home, our shared responsibility

This week I became increasingly uncomfortable reading the news. In just a few days, I came across several stories: border police officers jailed for barbecuing on base over Shabbat, accused of “harming religion”; female soldiers court-martialed and fined for...

Mar 20, 2026, 1:06 PM

Living up to the privilege

I came across a news article today. It was about how Israel still ranks high on the Happiness Index, even with all the craziness and the war going on. And it makes no sense. Usually, I wouldn’t be surprised,...

Mar 1, 2026, 1:50 PM

Our Friends and Neighbors

And here we go again. The already too familiar sound of the siren interrupted our morning coffee on Shabbat morning, and we immediately understood: another round is coming. We have basically been at war for two and a half years...

Jan 2, 2026, 5:56 PM

Happy (new) year

And it’s 2026. Another calendar goes in the garbage, another year we’re eager to leave behind. “Finally 2025 is over”, people say. “This year has to be better, it cannot possibly get worse”, people think. And I smile and...

Dec 23, 2025, 1:42 PM

Where did our humanity go?

Yesterday, a six-year-old boy from Beit Shemesh, the son of a couple I know, suddenly passed away. He was a healthy boy who had been sick with a fever. Suddenly he lost consciousness and the emergency response team tried to...

Oct 8, 2025, 10:50 AM

We can’t forget

Two years. Two years since we woke up to a different era. Two years since our brothers and sisters were massacred, raped, tortured, captured, kidnapped. Two years since the illusion of safety crumbled. Two years of hell. And the initial...

Jul 22, 2025, 11:36 PM

Two things are true

On October 7th, 2023, the Jewish people suffered the worst attack we have had since the holocaust. Back then, everything felt black-and-white: Hamas was the sheer force of evil which had to be completely destroyed by any necessary means,...

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About Me

Chilean-born, married mom of three. Made Aliyah to Tel Mond in 2022 with my husband and children. Lawyer, Foodie, Reader, Overthinker.