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...
We know that the working world faced one of the biggest shocks in 2020 when the pandemic hit and companies were forced to go remote overnight. All of a sudden, resources needed to be found to set up employees at home and quickly. Employees needed to juggle their...
During times of challenge, change and uncertainty, it’s important to keep yourself and your team motivated. And it’s a tough thing to do. There are some days when we wake up wonderfully productive, accomplishing all the tasks that we planned for that day....
I think we’re all feeling the strangeness of our times and I can see that this generates different responses for different people. I’ve been reflecting on the last 4 months since lockdowns, restrictions, masks and social distancing became our way of life and I...
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