Month: April 2008

It is a tradition, long in the making, to place a note with a prayer or wish, between the stones of the Western Wall, the […]

Somewhere along the way, I realized that while I am the mother of a soldier named Elie, someday soon (too soon), I will also be […]

You can smell it in the air; feel it in the children’s excitment (and freedom from school, as vacation started last week), and see it […]

I know it’s a shocking thing for a terrorist organization to do, really. I mean, we know that they regularly shoot rockets into civilian areas […]

The reality in Israel is that tens of thousands of Arabs freely travel, shop, study and visit Israeli cities every day. The reality in Israel, […]

Right after the Sabbath ended, Elie got a phone call. In a real war situation, it would be his responsibility to call his soldiers and […]

Elie’s real first day of vacation began yesterday. Immediately after he had awakened and said his morning prayers (something he does differently than he did […]

It’s just started and already I am enjoying it so much. He walked in yesterday, utterly exhausted, hungry, dirty. They had taken a 9 kilometer […]

What do buttons, batteries and bullets have in common? Let me explain…Passover is the one time of year that I become a fanatic in the […]