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Dorothea Shefer-VansonThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
When I asked the person in charge of the trip to Eilat organized by the association of pensioners of my former place of work whether there would be...
Is there such a thing as Collective Trauma? It seems there is, and Google defines and explains it as “the psychological distress that a group —...
The eyes of the world are focused on the Gaza Strip at the moment for a variety of reasons. Is Israel going to launch a ground offensive on the...
1938 A young couple fled Nazi Germany, found refuge in England and survived the war. Their parents were left behind and murdered. Four years later I...
The gamut of emotions came hard and fast one after the other last Saturday. The information about rockets fired on southern Israel interrupted a quiet...
I first participated in a demonstration when I was an impressionable 16-year-old, some 65 years ago, in those far-off days when England was a nuclear...
Several years ago I bought all six volumes of Proust’s monumental work, treating myself to both the French original and the English translation by...
Ever since Yigal (my other half) retired from his high-powered high-tech career he has been involved in numerous non-high-tech activities. These range...
Whether it’s because I have an M.A. in Communications (with a thesis on the language of the news) or am simply a glutton for punishment, I find it...