by Sarah Zadok | Apr 14, 2015 | Israel, Personal Narrative, Rebuilding
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...
by admin | Dec 14, 2014 | Relationships
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...
by Sarah Zadok | Oct 22, 2014 | Music and G-d
Music was my first introduction to spirituality. Chassidic philosophy was my second. I choose music like I choose friends: I stay close to good vibed, good hearted and truth telling artists, inevitably dipped in the blues, rock, jazz and grit. My inner soundtrack...
by admin | Jun 17, 2014 | Israel, Personal Development
I’m not the best pray-er in town (as I’ve mentioned elsewhere), but these past few days I’ve been saying psalms with more intention and intensity than I have in a long time.Tough times have me leaning a little harder on G-d, ain’t no two ways about it. The news of the...
by admin | Feb 21, 2014 | Grief & Loss, Relationships, The Mother-load
Yesterday, an eleventh-grade boy from the high school next door to my kids’ elementary school took his own life in his dorm room. The word “tragic” doesn’t even touch this situation. As a mother, I see myself as a gatekeeper of my children’s innocence. I do my best to...