What to do after your Birthright Trip, or just something cool to do while in Israel This might be the cheesiest thing to say ever, but I’m going to say it anyway with the utmost sincerity:...
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Torah For My Teeth
Guest post by Avram Mlotek “Too much lashon harah, eh?” my rabbi asks me playfully if I’ve been gossiping when I tell him I’ll have to reschedule a meeting because of an...
A Failure to Communicate
By Hannah Brown The most commonly used euphemism for autism in Hebrew is “bayat tikshoret†– communication problem. As the mother of an autistic teenage boy living in Israel, I like this term...
A Wooden Synagogue is Rising from the Ashes
In the course of World War II, an entire class of architecture was obliterated: the elaborate and sophisticated wooden synagogues of Poland. Not a single example of these remarkable structures...
I See Holocaust Everywhere
Guest post by Jonathan Zimmerman I am a haunted man. Each and every day, ghastly apparitions from times gone by besiege my consciousness. Often it seems only I can see them. But I know there are...
Raising an Autistic Child in Israel: Who Is God Listening To?
Guest post by Hannah Brown, author of the novel, “If I Could Tell You†about mothers raising autistic children, which will be published in March by Vantage Point Books. Read more about it at...