Thursday, April 8, 2010

An uneasy calm...

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"When I capture the image of a playground and a bomb shelter in the same photograph, I understand how what has become acceptable here i...
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Entering Israeli air space

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Flying to Israel is different than going anywhere else in the world. There are extra screenings, there are extra restrictions on what can b...

Heading home again......

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Greetings from somewhere over the Atlantic. I can’t believe I am able to head back to Israel so soon after my last trip, it has been barely ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Moving from "we to wii"...

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South Africa, Canada, Israel, the United States, China. Author, mom, business leader, entrepreneur, wine maker, rabbi. Four days ago we had ...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Bed time stories and fairy tales....

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I am exhausted, my first meeting started at 7:30 am this morning and my last one ended at 11:45pm. In between I heard the Prime Minister spe...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

The hometown of Allah, Adonai and Jesus...

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I had intended this entry to be about the relationship between Israel and Jews in the diaspora, but that topic will need to wait. Today is a...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

In the eye of the beholder...

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My day ended exactly where it started, on the hotel balcony overlooking the walls of the Old City. Jerusalem spread out below me. It is amaz...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Who needs Moses....

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Traveling to the land of milk and honey has never been an easy path. While my current trip didn’t take nearly the 40 years it took the Israe...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

And All the Fine China

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Life is measure in milestones…a first date, a driver’s license, a wedding ring, grandchildren. We segment our memories into before and after...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

24 days, 10 minutes and One Dollar

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My next trip to Israel is just over the horizon. The reservations are made, I have prepared my clients and colleagues for covering while I a...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

On Duty...

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Keeping this blog updated has not been a great success for me, my goal is to post something every Shabbat, but time seems to fly and other t...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A Letter to My Friends....

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I have rewritten this letter multiple times, I can’t seem to find the right mix of what I want to say, without it sounding so overly sappy, ...
Saturday, March 7, 2009

If not now....when?

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When I got back from Israel I couldn’t wait to talk about my trip. Most of my friends wanted to hear about the places and the people we met....
Friday, February 6, 2009

Alphabet Soup

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Thank you to one of my readers who pointed out my thoughtless use of “Jewish Alphabet Soup” in my posts, I apologize. These terms have been...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Please stow your tray tables and bring your seats to an upright position

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“Welcome to Altanta’s Hartsfield Jackson Airport, the local time is 5:37 am”. With those words I am thrown back into reality, our trip is r...

Ice Cream and F-16's

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Four days ago I came to Israel not sure how any one could live like this, constantly worrying about missiles and suicide bombings. I felt b...

B'yachad (Together)

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Our trip was not about politics or military strategies or even about who is right or wrong in all this mess. We were there to provide frien...

And Still They Come

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“You’re going WHERE? Have you lost your mind”. When I told people I was flying to Israel mere days after the current round of fighting start...