Hello All, It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since the Boston Marathon Bombing. Here’s my radio interview with “The World,” everything I said then still rings true for me today. Stay tuned I am heading to Israel … Read More
Two Jews (one of them, me, Israeli), a Black pastor, and the rest of a multi-ethnic, Boston city trauma response team, walk into a…Chabad school. Not a bar, but it still sounds like the opening line of an ethnic joke. … Read More
Stay Tuned for my upcoming Publication in The Boston Globe Magazine on September 30, 2018 and for those of you who are fasting this Yom Kippur good luck and Shana Tova. If you haven’t yet had the chance to … Read More
Home is not where I live with my husband. Home is not where I raised my kids. Home is the Artist’s loft, the place I always imagined I’d live if I wasn’t living on a small kibbutz in the middle … Read More
My workshop instructor at The William Joiner Center for The Study of War and Social Consequences, asked me to write about “The room I know best.” The room I know best is my car. I’m in it a lot. At a red light, … Read More
There are certain situations in which I meet someone for the first time and realize I am being pigeon-holed, stereotyped, or prejudged. In these moments I sometimes find it beneficial to mention that I served in the Israeli army. Regardless of what … Read More
Hello my friends and Blogster Buddies! Please check out my article in the latest issue of The Palestine/Israel Journal. The issue is dedicated to: Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Vol.22 No.1, 2017 ). Follow the link: http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=1743 Featuring … Read More
Mr. Trump, the greatest threat to this country is hunger and poverty. Please spend $15 Billion Dollars to end that! Although related, food insecurity and poverty are not the same. Poverty in the United States is only one of many … Read More
“He proved again that anyone who exposes him, anyone who does not share his hysterical disregard for decency and human dignity and the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, must be either a Communist or a fellow traveler.” Holy Cannolii people — … Read More
Nixon believed that-the civil rights movement went too far; that democrats were too lenient on communism-and were too liberal for America. President Richard Nixon despised social workers! He felt that they catered to the undeserving poor. So imagine my surprise … Read More