Take me to your leader
There is a point of view among many students of Middle Eastern politics that all of its problems would be solved if Israel ended its occupation of the territories captured during the 1967 Six-Day-War...
View ArticleIsrael and the UN – A political stunt at the Committee on the Status of Women...
I was privileged to attend the meeting of the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN recently, a wonderful insight into the operations, nuances and sensitivities of the international system....
View ArticleThe sport of politics
I came across an article in the Israeli media this week, but was unable to find it covered in the English language media. I suppose the story I was looking for is relatively insignificant as far as the...
View ArticleThe war that never ends… Yom Hazikaron 2016
Alon Bakal z”l was murdered on 1 January 2016 – New Year’s Day – in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire on the bar he was managing. It was on Yom Hazikaron in the previous year that...
View ArticleA Mother’s Tears
I am currently in Israel with my young family. My three-year-old son has been refusing to sleep in his own bed. He has been saying, “but mummy, I don’t love my new room. I don’t want to sleep by...
View ArticleTrump’d
I have thought about how I would write this for over two weeks now. I know it is important to cover the US Elections in terms of what it means for the world and for Israel and the Jewish people, but...
View ArticleLet’s Be Frank
From the first time I saw it, I was unable to get it out of my head. A picture. It was of a participant at a Women’s Solidarity March earlier this year in America. She wore a keffiyeh and a Palestinian...
View ArticleProtesting inequality in the Israeli army
On the 1st of December, 2016, Ofek Buchris, one of Israel’s most decorated military officers and former head of the Golani brigade, signed a plea bargain admitting to “conduct unbecoming an officer”...
View ArticleMatriculation
I learn you again, after long separation. Time, space — matrices that germinate knowing. My loss becomes gain after patient gestation. Home study – is it work, or vacation? Unwanted confinement, or...
View ArticleWhat the Rabbi Didn’t Say on the High Holy Days
I found myself staying in California near a large Conservative synagogue where I attended High Holy Day services. Though it’s a place where it’s usually hard to get a minyan, for these days the place...
View ArticleDays in the Dates
5:30 AM, my alarm goes off. I rush to get dressed in my dirty, ripped trousers, fumble around for my work boots covered in squashed, sticky fruit and sand, pick up a t-shirt and walk to the kitchen...
View ArticleTrump’d
I have thought about how I would write this for over two weeks now. I know it is important to cover the US Elections in terms of what it means for the world and for Israel and the Jewish people, but...
View ArticleLet’s Be Frank
From the first time I saw it, I was unable to get it out of my head. A picture. It was of a participant at a Women’s Solidarity March earlier this year in America. She wore a keffiyeh and a Palestinian...
View ArticleProtesting inequality in the Israeli army
On the 1st of December, 2016, Ofek Buchris, one of Israel’s most decorated military officers and former head of the Golani brigade, signed a plea bargain admitting to “conduct unbecoming an officer”...
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What the Rabbi Didn’t Say on the High Holy Days
I found myself staying in California near a large Conservative synagogue where I attended High Holy Day services. Though it’s a place where it’s usually hard to get a minyan, for these days the place...
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Days in the Dates
5:30 AM, my alarm goes off. I rush to get dressed in my dirty, ripped trousers, fumble around for my work boots covered in squashed, sticky fruit and sand, pick up a t-shirt and walk to the kitchen...
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Unlocking the Past
My sister and I never expected to find Naomi’s diary. Indeed, for many years, we did not even know of its existence. A non-descript, navy-bound volume, it had been stashed away in a drawer of the...
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Israel At 100: Where Will We Be?
Israel. From all corners of the world, Jews come, like birds guided only by some internal instinct. An instinct to see, to touch, to live the place that bridges past, present and a potential future. A...
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Where is the Outrage?
It was incomprehensible. Though I understood the words, I could not understand the announcement being made. The Hand in Hand school was on fire? I was at a rally in downtown Jerusalem protesting the...
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