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Sandstorms, Dust, Seeing Through It

Sandstorms, Dust, Seeing Through It

Sandstorms in the desert blown our way from the Sahara. My eyes itch. It irritates my throat. The government issues warnings. The Ministry of Health...

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Before 4 Questions

A few days ago, I read an article seeking a contemporary message in the Haggadah. When we read this book every year at the Passover seder table, with...

02.04.2026 30

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My Day: A Guilty Conscience and a Peace Rally

My Day: A Guilty Conscience and a Peace Rally

Returned from a local peace rally, convinced it has no influence. Yet my mood lifted. Classic revitalization that meeting the likeminded generates....

28.03.2026 20

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3 Tactics – Fooled?

Thursday morning power walk after delay due to air raid siren, hoping not to encounter another while walking, charting my route calculating run time...

21.03.2026 20

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Assessments and Reassessments, Politicians and a Salty Slice of Bread

Saturday morning headline: war for uranium destruction. Other unattainable objectives no longer serve politicians’ justifications for war. Saturday...

15.03.2026 40

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Habits Defining the Normal – A Tribute to Concern

When I get two or three text messages from concerned family or friends abroad in the same hour, while it could be coincidental, I check the news. New...

11.03.2026 40

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2 Anecdotes, 1 Antidote and Questionable Effectivity

Preparing our family Friday dinner yesterday, we had one air raid siren compelling us to go into the safe room. So far, we’ve been able to turn off...

07.03.2026 30

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For or Against: Scrolling

Not masquerading for Purim, it’s my true face – inability to take a stand. Guilty as accused: you changed your mind? Didn’t you just say the...

03.03.2026 50

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State of Mind and Clashing Orbits

Sirens – 11:30 PM, 1:47 AM. Relieved the next siren only awakened us at 6:30 AM, followed by frequent sirens until 2:00 PM. Resuming after 9:00 PM....

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Sirens and Pillow Fights

Like automated entities we headed for our safe room when air raid sirens woke us at 8:30 this morning. Messages from abroad filling my WhatsApp...

28.02.2026 40

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Call for Lexicon Elimination of Genocide: A Lesson in Discussion Avoidance

Beating my chest Yom-Kippur style, a presumed act of personal and collective repentance, demonstrating my sense of shame, determined to assume...

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Racism, other Isms – and a Fly on the Wall

01.01.2026 40

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Fleeting Frames of Pictures – and Tears

20.12.2025 50

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Compromise as Inevitably Patronizing?

09.12.2025 50

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In the Twilight Zone – Between Human Rights Violations and Friends

30.11.2025 30

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A Memorial in a Shared Space?

28.10.2025 60

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Ultimately Wondering: Will Hamas Lay Down Their Arms?

12.10.2025 70

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The Complexity of Superficiality or Not So Cognitive Dissonance

14.09.2025 40

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Ok. Not. Not Us. Not Them.

08.09.2025 70

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Turning Inwards, Returning Home

24.08.2025 90

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Disoriented

14.08.2025 70

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School’s Out for Summer – #EndTheWarNow

02.08.2025 40

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Hunger. Gaza. Framing.

26.07.2025 50

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Taking it Personally

20.07.2025 30

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One Week in July – About October, News and Sources

12.07.2025 20

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Unicorns and Hedge Funds Follow the News

05.07.2025 40

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In Defiance of Progressing Towards Regression

29.06.2025 30

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Abandoning Complexity for Compromising – Myself

22.06.2025 30

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A Museum and the Clarity of Something Closer

08.06.2025 30

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Alarmingly Normal

01.06.2025 30

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Holiday Greetings, Cleaning Seasons, and 3 Questions

14.04.2025 30

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Evil Prevails, Until Democracy Transcends… and Then

22.03.2025 50

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Two Graves, Two Workshops, One Movie

08.03.2025 40

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Polar, Parallel, Converging

16.02.2025 40

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The Pathetic Solidarity of Helplessness

09.02.2025 30

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Thunder

12.01.2025 40

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