Israel at War -My Blog
Day 627 War In Israel: Recalibrating
Pictured above: People rest and as they take shelter in an underground parking garage as a precaution against possible Iranian missile attacks, in Tel Aviv, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) The last 18 hours or so were scored with the sound of sirens,...
Day 621 War in Israel: Fit Check
We've had a lot of drone activity in our parts lately. Iranian, Syrian, I don't know...but when the siren sounds, we move quickly. Today, after we got the all-clear to leave the shelter, I did a little Rising Lion-style fit check. I'll explain. Months ago, the head...
Day 362 War in Israel: A Rosh HaShana Prayer
Sweet Gd of Heaven and Earth. Gd of all that is, was, and will be. Gd of inner, Gd of outer. Gd of above, Gd of beyond. Gd of our Fathers. Gd of our mothers. Gd of our children. Gd of our brothers and our sisters. Listen. . . . I love you. Even while my heart beats...
Day 354 War in Israel: Ready
Things have heated up in the north. Thank Gd, our family is just fine. Our community is just fine. There has not been any direct rocket or drone activity in our particular community at this time. Tfu-tfu. The same cannot be said for our neighbors and friends. Keep...
Day 330 War in Israel: My Israel Hurts
My Israel hurts. Today we woke to the devasting news that our forces found six of our hostages, dead. They were alive just days ago. Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23 Eden Yerushalmi, 24 Carmel Gat, 40 Almog Sarusi, 26 Alexander Lobanov, 32 Ori Danino, 25 Names, faces, and...
Day 321 War in Israel: Blasts & Bounce
It's a cool, grey-sky morning. I’m sitting in our backyard deck, under the grapevine, drinking black coffee and listening to the birds sing their morning songs. Belle, our new puppy is exploring the garden and chewing on anything she can get her little teeth around....
Day 152 War in Israel: Boker Tov
Our sages say we should "rise like a lion" upon waking each morning. I've always loved that visual. Far as it may be from my life experience as of late. For the past 152 days, more often than not, I feel tired. Like, fundamentally. Madeline Khan in Blazing Saddles...
Day 150 War in Israel: Teeter-Totter
It's been a while since I've written. I paused because I needed to spend more time living than I was trying to understand and explain what it's like to be alive. Also, to be honest, I haven't had all that much to say. I mean, what can I tell you that you don't already...
Day 105 War in Israel: I Love You
It has been a major challenge to bring myself to the page. I have tried to muster up a string of cohesive thoughts to share about how it feels to be a Jewish woman, in the Golan Heights these days. 105 days into this still raging war, with no clear end in sight. It's...
Day 86 War in Israel: Rupture & Repair
It's been 86 days of war. That's more time than modern brain science says is required to form a new habit. In some ways, I feel like that's exactly what we've been doing…building new habits, new ways of being, laying down new neural pathways to live with the...
Day 75 War in Israel: Resilience
I spoke with a new friend today. We met a few weeks ago. She's a strong, kind woman. As far as life circumstances go, she's pretty down and out. She's a single, disabled mom, raising her youngest, without many resources. She immigrated to Israel with a Jewish...
Day 74 War in Israel: Bearing Witness
Some days I show up to this blank page and I have nothing to say. Nothing at all. Then I remember why I show up here, to this page at all. I am here to bear witness to this experience. To document what each day since Oct 7th has been for me. So that I don't forget....