A secret that’s good to know
Many years ago I was let in on a secret and it changed my life. When I sit in the bomb shelter with my three children as code red sirens wail and we wait to hear the explosions, this secret often comes...
View ArticleThe Loneliness of War
The people of Israel are at war…again. We had hopes for a ceasefire, yet those dreams were dashed quickly by code red sirens and falling rockets. Peace is something so far-fetched in our part of the...
View ArticleLeaving Home, Missing Home
I left home. I left the war zone. I left the code red sirens, the rocket attacks, the fear. I left my love. For six months I had this trip to America planned. But I anticipated leaving the same country...
View ArticleIsrael’s Real Friends
A life-changing moment for me took place on the special evening when I was graciously welcomed into the suburban North Carolina home of Bishop Paul and Debbie Lanier. They are Christian, I am Jewish....
View ArticleMy first love
I spent six emotional weeks visiting my first love. Although we don’t meet often, when we do I feel uncomfortable at how easily we still relate. There is no denying that with my first love I understand...
View ArticleThe day I met Superwoman
Her name is Chani. And if you saw her walking on the street you would never know her struggles. She looks like a typical Israeli woman with long black hair, striking brown eyes, and a soft yet powerful...
View ArticleThe election is over…our work has just begun
Voting is over. Go home and come back in four years, read the sign at a voting station on November 9th. Something about those seemingly innocent words made my blood boil. Over the past few weeks we...
View ArticleNext year — in the rebuilt Jerusalem!
As Jews around the world were getting ready to celebrate Passover, our holiday of freedom, we received painful reminders that so many of God’s children are still enslaved. We watched our computer...
View ArticleRemembering the real meaning of America’s Memorial Day
‘What is Memorial Day?’ I asked a friend’s teenager in America, and her answer shocked me. ‘A day off of school and sales at the mall,’ the 13-year-old answered, as my face turned white. Her mother...
View ArticleWhen they’re gone, how will Morocco’s Jews be remembered?
I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. There I was, an Orthodox Israeli Jew, at a 500-year-old synagogue in Marrakesh, distributing food parcels to Muslims for Ramadan, representing the...
View ArticleFrom tears of pain to rain of peace
His mother’s blouse rended, she wailed “My Solomon” in the mourning tent outside the tiny apartment home of the Gavriyah family, in Be’er Yaakov. “When you left the house on Sunday with your bag and...
View ArticleShining Lights in a Dark World
Hanukkah is the holiday of miracles, and indeed the miracles that I witnessed in Israel this year during the holiday were endless. It started when I watched my four Israeli-born children light the...
View ArticleLeaving Home, Missing Home
I left home. I left the war zone. I left the code red sirens, the rocket attacks, the fear. I left my love. For six months I had this trip to America planned. But I anticipated leaving the same country...
View ArticleIsrael’s Real Friends
A life-changing moment for me took place on the special evening when I was graciously welcomed into the suburban North Carolina home of Bishop Paul and Debbie Lanier. They are Christian, I am Jewish....
View ArticleMy first love
I spent six emotional weeks visiting my first love. Although we don’t meet often, when we do I feel uncomfortable at how easily we still relate. There is no denying that with my first love I understand...
View ArticleThe day I met Superwoman
Her name is Chani. And if you saw her walking on the street you would never know her struggles. She looks like a typical Israeli woman with long black hair, striking brown eyes, and a soft yet powerful...
View ArticleThe election is over…our work has just begun
Voting is over. Go home and come back in four years, read the sign at a voting station on November 9th. Something about those seemingly innocent words made my blood boil. Over the past few weeks we...
View ArticleNext year — in the rebuilt Jerusalem!
As Jews around the world were getting ready to celebrate Passover, our holiday of freedom, we received painful reminders that so many of God’s children are still enslaved. We watched our computer...
View ArticleRemembering the real meaning of America’s Memorial Day
How to honor the heroes who gave their lives so Americans can live in freedom, peace and prosperity
View ArticleWhen they’re gone, how will Morocco’s Jews be remembered?
At the synagogue of a dying community distributing Ramadan parcels to needy Muslims
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