Waving to the Angel of Death
Ruminations on the 20th anniversary of the Park Hotel bombing on Seder night 20 years ago – and how the Haggadah helped me cope. It has been 20 years since my family and I exited the bombed premises […]
Blinded by a Black Hat
Israel would do well to examine why in the Shitrit murder, and many other cases involving rabbinical misconduct, authorities often turn a blind eye. I remember the Shitrit family. Very devout new immigrants from Morocco, they lived in […]
To Whom Was the Promised Land Promised? – A Book Review
Finally, there is someone out there authoritative and knowledgeable enough to shine the light of truth on those who have refashioned the Arab-Israeli conflict in terms of legality – mostly Israel’s “illegal occupation of Occupied Arab Land.” Prof. […]
Why I Left Jerusalem
After 50-something years, and to the astonishment of our children and grandchildren, at the end of June my husband and I packed up our things and left Jerusalem, moving halfway across the country to settle in Zichron Yaakov, […]
Aliyah: What I Hadn’t Expected; What I Hadn’t Dreamed
Leaving America Behind Snow covered the wings of the plane I boarded at JFK in January 1971, my first flight ever. My husband and I shivered as we boarded the flight to Israel. We had burned our bridges […]
An Observant Wife
My new book, An Observant Wife, which is a sequel to An Unorthodox Match will be published on September 14th. Here’s a comment by an early reader: “Long before Shtisel and Unorthodox reached television screens, Naomi Ragen had […]
Never Again? Really?
It is not every day that a woman wakes up to find that her children and grandchildren have spent the night in a bomb shelter, bombarded by missiles launched by a vicious, anti-Semitic terrorist organization dedicated to murdering […]
A Daycare Tragedy Opens My Eyes
Sometimes a single truth, belatedly discovered, can change one’s world view with surprising swiftness. The article that changed mine was published in Ha’aretz—a newspaper I never read, considering it, like most Israelis, to be far left of the […]
Goodbye 2020. Welcome 2021!
Dear 2020, Here we are at the eve of your departure. I have to admit that I’m thrilled to see you go. But I wouldn’t want you to fade into oblivion before reminding us both of the remarkable […]