The last time I wrote an entry for my war diaries was day 32. I just haven’t been able to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and write my thoughts for the last 2 weeks. We’re on day 45 – whoever thought it would be this long and still, no end...
In the Jewish tradition, 30 days of mourning is a significant milestone in the mourning cycle after losing a loved one. It’s called Shloshim and counting from the massacre of October 7th, that day is today. As you work through the stages of grief – denial,...
Last night we had a sliver of light in the darkness. We rejoiced at the brave rescue of one of the hostages, Ori Megidish, 19 years old, from a Gaza tunnel, by the IDF. A young girl who was taken, is now back with her family, back home. Together with the 4 hostages...
How are you? For the last 17 days, the most normal of questions, the question that usually just rolls off our tongue without thinking, has become the hardest question to answer. When someone asks me, How are you? I pause and think. I don’t know how to answer the...
Every morning I wake up and for a split second, before I’m completely awake, while my mind is still a bit foggy from sleep, I simply forget that life here in Israel has literally been turned upside-down. For that split second, I think nothing has really changed and...
Yesterday I was supposed to be in Amsterdam with my running group, running a half-marathon. We’ve been training for months and were totally psyched to go – 17 of us – and then war broke… Needless to say, none of us felt like we could go so we didn’t. Here’s what I did...
Challah is a special bread Jewish people eat on Shabbat. We make a special blessing when we bake it and also when we eat it. There is nothing like the smell of freshly baked challah permeating through the house as we prepare for our day of rest. This week is a little...
How do I write an article like this? I’ve been wanting to write about what’s happening in Israel for the last 3 days but every time I sit to write something, the words don’t come and the tears flow. How do I write about something that I can’t make any sense of? How do...
I became intrigued when I heard the statement expressed by Jim Rohn, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” If we can look at the 5 people closest to us and say we are a reflection of this combined group, we need to ask ourselves, are...
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