Category: news is news
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Living history
Never have I been so relieved for the timing of a flight home… Back in Israel after another extended work trip, just in time to be woken at 3am with a warning about a potential attack from Iran. Since, after all, Israel had already started delivering blows to nuclear infrastructure, as promised, for… years. Years,…
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Heartbreak.
The heartbreak is heavy. It’s an anchor, weighing me down, weighing my finger down when I’m about to click ‘play’ on the livestream. It’s so heavy that in the last 18 hours I can’t bring myself to refresh anymore. The first week, I absorbed the news every spare chance I had. At my desk while…
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Sense.
Do you also get the sensation that you can’t remember what life was like before February 2020? It feels like pre-2020 reality is a fading dust, I can barely feel it on my fingertips as it floats away… And I’d been feeling this for long before a Jewish President of Ukraine became a global symbol…
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Twenty Years
Political Violence (part 1) It took place in an off-the-beaten path classroom, not a modern lecture hall. We were maybe 30 students, and the few times we had met before – maybe it was two? Three? – we had already covered some ‘basics’: what peacebuilding is, Rwanda, a bit of Bosnia. When I registered for…
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This is decades-bad.
It’s bad. It’s bad on so many levels. Personally, we are ok in our area. A given Israeli’s frontline concerns depend on where exactly they are located. For us on this side, the very rare siren in the last 15 years is not much of an issue. That can’t be said for every corner of…
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Hi from a new chapter in an old story.
After a year and a half of emotional exhaustion, it’s shocking and also not shocking to learn that it’s possible to be even more deeply emotionally exhausted. With each passing rocket or gunshot or stabbing or counterstrike, another slice of the next generation loses the chance to grow up not knowing what we know. More…
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On judgment: Permission to strip away the human
During such upheaval, in such uncertain times – we don’t have to agree; but do we have to condemn? And if we condemn, do we have to do it while stripping away the human in us?
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A synagogue into a slaughterhouse makes us wonder: what the hell happened to us?
11 Jewish congregants were slaughtered by an anti-Semite with an assault rifle. It’s a timeless tale. A baby was being accepted into the covenant. A timeless tale. The blood of the akaida, delivered by an enemy, the Angel of Hatred, of Spite, of Terror, of Death. And yet… “They should have been armed.” “Around the…
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We cast our lot.
When people ask me why I came here, my answer is that no matter what I believe religiously I’ll always accept the fact that by being born into what I was born I have no choice but to cast my lot with the rest of my people. So even now, as there is this man…
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The Prime Minister makes a PowerPoint
It’s night three of my daughter’s cough and it’s gotten much better. I’m sitting uncomfortably on the Hello Kitty stool next to the crib, with my forefinger making lines in her palm, my phone on ‘play’ in the other hand, and in my left ear, an earbud is loosely holding on. The prime minister is…
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State of the obvious.
Aftermath video of today’s strikes on Hass: ‘I want to go to my mother. The warplane has attacked us. I don’t want to go to school anymore.’ pic.twitter.com/WDKT8sUkIv — Sakir Khader (@sakirkhader) October 26, 2016 So there’s feature on twitter where it autoplays videos in your feed on mute. I was scrolling through to pass…