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Day 152 War in Israel: Boker Tov

Day 152 War in Israel: Boker Tov

Our sages say we should "rise like a lion" upon waking each morning. I've always loved that visual. Far as it may be from my life experience as of late. For the past 152 days, more often than not, I feel tired. Like, fundamentally. Madeline Khan in Blazing Saddles...

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Day 150 War in Israel: Teeter-Totter

Day 150 War in Israel: Teeter-Totter

It's been a while since I've written. I paused because I needed to spend more time living than I was trying to understand and explain what it's like to be alive. Also, to be honest, I haven't had all that much to say. I mean, what can I tell you that you don't already...

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Day 105 War in Israel: I Love You

Day 105 War in Israel: I Love You

It has been a major challenge to bring myself to the page. I have tried to muster up a string of cohesive thoughts to share about how it feels to be a Jewish woman, in the Golan Heights these days. 105 days into this still raging war, with no clear end in sight. It's...

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Day 86 War in Israel: Rupture & Repair

Day 86 War in Israel: Rupture & Repair

It's been 86 days of war.  That's more time than modern brain science says is required to form a new habit.  In some ways, I feel like that's exactly what we've been doing…building new habits, new ways of being, laying down new neural pathways to live with the...

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Day 75 War in Israel: Resilience

Day 75 War in Israel: Resilience 

I spoke with a new friend today. We met a few weeks ago. She's a strong, kind woman. As far as life circumstances go, she's pretty down and out. She's a single, disabled mom, raising her youngest, without many resources.  She immigrated to Israel with a Jewish...

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Day 74 War in Israel: Bearing Witness

Day 74 War in Israel: Bearing Witness

Some days I show up to this blank page and I have nothing to say. Nothing at all. Then I remember why I show up here, to this page at all. I am here to bear witness to this experience. To document what each day since Oct 7th has been for me. So that I don't forget....

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Day 73 War in Israel: It’s time

Day 73 War in Israel: It’s time

Among the horrors of war lay The most beautiful faces With the brightest futures The most loving families And the best friends So much life. Laid to rest and mourned forever by a family that will never be the same. One after the next. These soldiers, killed in duty,...

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Day 71 War in Israel: Space for the Hurt

Day 71 War in Israel: Space for the Hurt

We had a lovely shabbat. Just us for dinner.  Went to bed early. Woke up slowly. Took my time. I said my prayers unhurried, enjoyed the feel of the words in my mouth and their sound as I spoke them out loud. I read.  Played hide and seek with Harley. Went for a long,...

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Day 70 War in Israel: A shabbat prayer

Day 70 War in Israel: A shabbat prayer

What follows are the words to a song (which is also a prayer) called "Shalva B'armonotiech || Peace in your castles" by Ravid Plotnik. The explanation of "what is prayer" is from Shai Zabri (it's part of the song). The translation is my own. You can listen to the song...

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