When COVID-19 reached Israel last March, I was not unduly worried. Fifty years of firsthand experience with Israeli resilience and mutual cooperation, through wars, recessions, exploding buses and deep political turmoil, made me believe we would sail through […]
In mid-January 2020, when Israelis first became dimly aware of a mysterious new virus coming from far-off China, most of our attention was focused closer to home. Although we empathized, we were more concerned about the inability of […]
Lisa Niver, a wonderful writer and book addict, has written an article for Ms. Magazine’s May 2020 issue about “Books That Will Transport You” out of your lockdown at home during the Covid -17 #stay at home. Among […]
My Dear Friends, I’m writing to you from Jerusalem where soon our eternal Capital, our undivided city, will be divided into lock-down zones. Many of you will also be separated from your loved ones. Too many of you […]
Haredim have been social distancing since Israel was founded, refusing to take part in the social, cultural and educational life of the rest of the country, isolating into separate communities with their own institutions and own way of […]
I’m happy to let you know I have a new book coming out this September. It’s called An Unorthodox Match. By the way, it’s already out in Hebrew, as צמאה לך נפשי. I already have lectures set up […]
If you lived in Israel, then when you went to the supermarket, you could see two beautiful Jewish Ethiopian women in their high headdresses, hugging each other. They would be your check-out girls.If you lived in Israel, then […]
For Israelis, bringing teenage sons and daughters barely out of high school to the army induction center to begin their compulsory military service is one of the most fraught and difficult realities of life. Underlying the cheerful, almost […]
