|
Alexandra EllThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Speaking about death and loss is never simple, and speaking to children about them is harder still. The Holocaust — six million lives extinguished,...
With the elections approaching, international attention has turned towards Budapest once more. The stakes are high, but not only for Hungary. The...
A recent New York Post headline reads: New Yorkers issued stark warning about opening ‘Pandora’s box’ of doctor‑assisted suicide: ‘Like a...
In moments of political crisis, one claim returns with striking regularity: “silence makes one guilty”. It appears in legal texts, prophetic...
In the mid‑2010s, I lived on Admirala Geprata, a quiet street in central Belgrade just blocks from Nemanjina, where the bombed‑out Yugoslav...
There is an old story about Operation Margarethe, the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944. A German general asks: “How long would it take to...
Earlier this week, I spoke with someone I had known in another lifetime, back when I lived in South Korea. We have not met for two decades, yet across...
“The shoes are full of stones scattered in them.” The sentence landed with the dull thud of something that should not be possible and stopped me...
Some sentences look simple but smuggle in whole philosophies of life. Take what linguists call a counterfactual conditional: a sentence that talks...
Holocaust distortion rarely announces itself with the bluntness of denial; more often it appears in the form of casual statements, recycled clichés,...
With the arrival of Adar and Purim drawing near, kitchens across the Jewish world begin to fill with Hamantaschen. In this corner of Central Europe,...