Dear Friends, I’m happy to share this link to my YouTube video (my first!) answering some readers’ questions about my latest book, An Unorthodox Match. I hope you’ll check it out! It’s at https://youtu.be/opOAQyriEmg If you enjoy the video, […]
When my daughter Bracha decided to sell her apartment in Modi’in, a small city between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and move to a spacious corner house in Elkana, one of the first settlements over the so-called Green Line, […]
Last Shabbat my husband Alex began telling me about the huge hypocrisy of the Europeans in condemning Israel over the “occupation” and “right of return” considering how they have dealt with such matters themselves. I was astounded at the information he proceeded to give me
This July, thousands of Ethiopian Jews participated in sit-ins, blocking main roads all over Israel with burning tires. More than 100 police officers were injured and more than 136 demonstrators arrested. The immediate catalyst was the death of […]
“Last year, at UC Berkeley, I had the opportunity to ‘dialogue’ with some of the organizers of these [Israel Apartheid Week] events. My perspective is unique, both as the vice consul for Israel in San Francisco, and as […]
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 […]
Yesterday, I met my friend Esther Wachsman at the movies. We went to see Green Book in Cinema City Jerusalem. Esther lost her soldier son Nachshon who was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists 25 years ago. She […]
Every year when Passover eve arrives, I do my best not to think about that night; to allow the joy of cherished rituals meant to renew our family’s tribal history and faith envelop us in its warm glow […]
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 […]
