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How to Throw an Awesome Bat Mitzvah
Have an awesome kid. Raise her right. Instill good values. Sweeten her Torah. Show her what is Ahavat Israel really means. Allow her plenty of opportunities to see herself the way that you, her loving parents, see her. Ask bat mitzvah girl what she wants to do. Do...
The Surgical Waiting Room Revival Tent
It’s amazing how the cracked walls and worn out chairs of a pediatric surgical waiting room can give way to the holiest of ground. The stone floors Cathedral; consecrated by hard steps of anxious parents. Tears on tired eyes, prayers on their lips. Muffled sounds of...
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
For a few, blessed weeks each May-June, the cherry trees here in the Golan Heights take their turn in the season and strut their sweet stuff. This year, the farmers on our moshav extended a generous invite and welcomed us locals to come out to the fields and enjoy the...
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Thanks For The Mammaries
I’m on my way to get an ultrasound. Of my boobs. I am trying to stay cool and collected, and remember the doc’s emphasis about this being a “precautionary measure just to confirm that everything is fine,” but my heart has gone rogue and abandoned rationale in favor of...
I’m an immigrant, not a foreigner
Today is a fortunate day for people like me who chose this life and this land from outside of her soil. I have lost neither son nor spouse in the field or on a bus ride home. I am a new-comer to this land, 16 years this June, my children have not yet served, my...
Passover Prayer
May the wine we drink, the Torah we share, the food we eat, and the stories we tell remind us of who we have been who we are now and Move us towards who we are intended to be. May that knowing fill our hearts, pump through our veins, and surge into every cell of our...
Got A Light?
Stepping outside of my front door in winter is like being front row at an IMAX showing. Rain, wind, thunder and snow, the Golan Heights gives good nature. I’m not the most outdoorsy gal on the block, but I have gotten pretty good at watching new weather move in. The...
Arabs, Jews And The Open Road
I love to drive. Preferably alone. I pick up travelers from time to time, but given a choice, I go solo. Driving is my peace, it is my prayer, and it is a sacred experience for me – it always has been. It’s a time for me to just listen, to just think without...
Why Living In The Moment Is Overrated
Growing up, I kept a copy of ”Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by my bedside (not too far from the “The Tao of Pooh,” a collection of poems by ee cummings, “The Catcher in the Rye” and “This is My God” for those of you keeping score). I dabbled in...
Fuzzy Slippers & 8 Days Of Romance
This past summer wiped me out. I know it's mid December already, but the memory of that long, hot, burnout of a summer kind of frames the (relative) peace and beauty of this winter season for me. Just to state the obvious, summer break is way too long. Two months of...
How Eminem & The Lubavitcher Rebbe Help Me Serve G-d
I suppose creative droughts are not exclusive to writers and content creators. But, when I’m in one, it’s lonely. It feels like “Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen” playing in the far south of my soul circa 1859. On a “medium” parched-for-creative inspiration...