Remembering Michael Levin: Follow Your Heart
In the summer of 2006 while working at Camp Ramah Day Camp in Philadelphia, I was coming back from a work shift when a dark sedan pulled up to the entrance of our building. Men in suits shuffled out of...
View ArticleAliya — and then a wave hits
It’s a whirlwind. A blur of faces, hands, and names. And lines, dreadful, tiring but ultimately rewarding lines. There are questions too. Who, what, why. But never where. Where is acknowledged in every...
View ArticleReality Checks In
Surreal? Unimaginable? Inexplicable? How do you describe the feeling of living under terror, in fear of what the next day, the next hour, or even the next minute will bring? I didn’t know this feeling;...
View ArticleA Missed Opportunity, ’47-’12
Today is November 29, 2012, 65 years to the day that the United Nations voted to partition British Mandated Palestine into two separate states, one Jewish and one Arab. The phrase I have grown to...
View ArticleGetting Centered
For the past six months I have witnessed many things here in Israel. I witnessed an American presidential election for the first time while outside of the United States. I witnessed what some...
View ArticleIce hockey…in Israel?
First off, it has been quite a while since I have written for this blog. My last blog was back in January, when I wrote about the Israeli election and the victory of Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party. Since...
View ArticleNot So Scary Moments
Two days ago I sent a simple message to Sarah Tuttle-Singer, the Queen of Social Media here at the Times of Israel. I told her that having just returned home from class at IDC I decided to locate my...
View Article9/11: A Child’s Lost Innocence
The following is a written testimony of my personal account of the 9/11 attacks 12 years ago. This testimony was originally written in the Fall of 2011, prior to the 10th anniversary of the attacks,...
View ArticleDaring to dream
Tomorrow, February 27th, 2014, I will be enlisting as a volunteer soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. My dream of serving in the IDF has long existed in my mind, as far back as I can remember, but it...
View ArticleRemembering Michael Levin: Follow Your Heart
In the summer of 2006 while working at Camp Ramah Day Camp in Philadelphia, I was coming back from a work shift when a dark sedan pulled up to the entrance of our building. Men in suits shuffled out of...
View ArticleAliya — and then a wave hits
It’s a whirlwind. A blur of faces, hands, and names. And lines, dreadful, tiring but ultimately rewarding lines. There are questions too. Who, what, why. But never where. Where is acknowledged in every...
View ArticleReality Checks In
Surreal? Unimaginable? Inexplicable? How do you describe the feeling of living under terror, in fear of what the next day, the next hour, or even the next minute will bring? I didn’t know this feeling;...
View ArticleA Missed Opportunity, ’47-’12
Today is November 29, 2012, 65 years to the day that the United Nations voted to partition British Mandated Palestine into two separate states, one Jewish and one Arab. The phrase I have grown to...
View ArticleGetting Centered
For the past six months I have witnessed many things here in Israel. I witnessed an American presidential election for the first time while outside of the United States. I witnessed what some...
View ArticleIce hockey…in Israel?
On having his two worlds -- Israel advocacy and his favorite sport -- collide for the 2013 Maccabiah Games
View ArticleNot So Scary Moments
Two days ago I sent a simple message to Sarah Tuttle-Singer, the Queen of Social Media here at the Times of Israel. I told her that having just returned home from class at IDC I decided to locate my...
View Article9/11: A Child’s Lost Innocence
The following is a written testimony of my personal account of the 9/11 attacks 12 years ago. This testimony was originally written in the Fall of 2011, prior to the 10th anniversary of the attacks,...
View ArticleDaring to dream
Tomorrow, February 27th, 2014, I will be enlisting as a volunteer soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. My dream of serving in the IDF has long existed in my mind, as far back as I can remember, but it...
View ArticleWhat about Lior?
An Israeli couple that was held by Turkey on suspicion of espionage returned home this past week after a weeklong detention, and largely due to the scrutiny received in mainstream media outlets and on...
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