Month: December 2007

One of the hardest things to do, as a mother of a soldier, is to avoid absorbing every story, every tragedy, as your own. Sometimes, […]

Elie’s coming home today for the weekend. He is currently on a base along the northern coast of Israel taking a two-day course on the […]

Well, according to Israel National News, the good news is that most Saudi Arabians want to improve relations with the US (this according to a […]

As much as I’ve tried to learn to cope with missing Elie on a day-to-day basis, I realize that there are levels of missing that […]

There are things we teach our children, here in Israel, that they should not have to learn. No child should learn to look for suspicious […]

Last night we lit the last candle on the menorah. Eight burning lights filling the window with joy and light. Chanukah is one of the […]

This morning I drove Elie to the central bus station in Jerusalem to catch an early bus to Tel Aviv. From there, he will meet […]

We all have battles we fight within ourselves: battles where the heart fights the mind, the mind fights the heart and the soul wonders which […]

It’s another cool evening in Jerusalem as winter firms its grip on the capital city. People are preparing to go home for the evening; others […]