Hiding Behind a Torah Scroll
It’s Sunday, September 3. Outside my window a great shout has gone up from loudspeakers and the line of cars traveling to Tel Aviv is completely still. Aryeh Deri is on his way to jail. Finally. When the […]
Category Archives: Politics
Shamelessness – This Winter’s Real Epidemic
It isn’t the flu bug that’s giving Israelis a feeling of nausea and head pains in unprecedented numbers this winter. It’s an epidemic of shamelessness. It’s President Weizman brazenly declaring that taking “gifts from a friend” is perfectly […]
Agreeing To Disagree
I was sitting on a bus on the way to Jerusalem’s town center a few weeks before Rosh Hashana, when the radio started broadcasting a commercial from the Reform and Conservative movements. It went something like this: “Ask […]
To Dream the Impossible Dream
I am not a politician, nor a political analyst, nor in any formal sense a journalist covering a story. I am simply a person who has lived in Jerusalem for over twenty-five years, experiencing the Yom Kippur war […]
From a Distance: Vive la difference!
Last Friday my husband and I took our grandsons to the beach. Every time we got to an intersection, we were surrounded by a swarm of youngsters wearing election campaign hats and T-shirts, who offered us car stickers […]
It’s Too Late
I was one of those awful people who shouted at Yitzhak Rabin and called him a traitor. I stood behind the barricades, held up my placard and screamed: “Boged.” I remember it clearly. He came right past us, […]