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A man phones his mother. She answers in a very faint voice, “Hello.” He asks, “Mom, how are you?” She replies, “Very weak.” “Why are you weak?” “I haven’t eaten in 27 days.”...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-questions-i-wish-i-had-asked/

We have been told that the road to peace passed through Ramallah. That, first and foremost, Israel had to make peace with the Palestinians. Only after this such a peace, Israel could have relatio...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/enough-with-the-palestine-first-lie/

I have a dance studio in my house. No, there are no mirrors, or bars, but there is an open space with a yoga block in the middle, to delineate the center of a circle. My spouse Matthew is an exce...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-sanctuary-in-our-homes/

Yom Kippur this year is presenting itself as a challenge for Jews and Jewish communities around the world. Being that it is the day of the year that, along with Rosh Hashanah, sees the largest nu...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/yom-kippur-like-our-ancient-ancestors-did-it/

I often ask my Birthright participants what would they do if they were safely ensconced on their university campus in North America and they heard that the Jewish state was under attack? Would th...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/leonard-cohen-and-the-yom-kippur-war/

What timing! In the first wave of Covid-19, we spent Passover in lockdown and didn’t get to celebrate it with our extended families, the way Jewish families have been doing for centuries. I war...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-we-earned-being-covids-prime-target/

Since August and the publication of a dozen of my articles, where at the end there is space for readers’ comments, not one comment has been received from Israeli readers. Yet to my very great s...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thanks-for-foreign-readers/

November 4: Trump Loses. The Republicans lose control of the Senate.  The House remains in Democrat control. Democracy has spoken! Elation, insane emotion, the media erupts in uninterrupted, unc...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/could-the-death-of-ruth-bader-ginsburg-be-what-saves-america/

Our family is a family of traditions. We have traditions for just about everything and our friends and family are aware of this and even tell us that they expect to see our photos. Over the years...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/memories-of-slichot-traditions-past/

Most people know that three of the world’s major religions were born in the Middle East : Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. However, there are less known  ones like Druze, Baha’i, Yazidis et...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/not-christian-muslim-or-jew-druze-are-another-middle-eastern-religion/