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Naomi GraetzThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
MY FIRST BLOG It’s hard to believe that this is my 70th blog. I began to write in the time period between Shavuot and Tisha B’Av. Out of...
This week I am without words בלי מילים—beli milim. That is an expression we hear over and over as more and more people—including Knesset...
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to our forefather Abram, in light of what is happening now in our country with all of our internal migrations: We...
Three weeks ago, when the war broke out, I kept on hearing people talking about chamal –חמל—and didn’t quite understand what it was. I...
To write a blog or not to write a blog, that is the question. The more I think about it, the more I realize that I write the blogs as much for myself...
I sat at my computer for 10 minutes and all I managed to write was OY! I called my daughter and shared my plight with her and she said, “Imma, I...
I just this minute, heard about the death of my friend and mentor, Professor Alice Shalvi. This Correspondence from 2007 speaks for itself. From:...
On Sukkot, we are commanded to be happy–ve-samachta be-hagecha. It is the only holiday in which this is so. The question is what is there about...
With the opening Torah reading of Yom Kippur we come full circle following the stories about Abraham’s sacrifice of his two sons Ishmael and Isaac...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a topic that is surfacing now in Israel with the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Just last...
At the beginning of parshat nitzavim-vayelkh, God renews the covenant with his people. The covenant will be binding, not only for those who are...