Kinderlach, Go Home
Today I participated in Shevach’s amazing day trip to Gush Etzion. We visited a bunch of places (this photo was taken at the Herodian) but the place that made the deepest impression on me was Kefar Etzion and the story of the brutal 1948 massacre of 242 Gush-Etzion kibbutz members (among them 22 women as […]
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Talking with the “Enemy”
Tensions between Right and Left are sky-high after a victory in the Knesset today for judicial reform. International news on Israel is all about the fury of those protesting the reforms, and the increasingly violent demonstrations. But what the news hasn’t been telling you is that this deep rift distancing Israelis from one another is […]
Read MoreWhen a Mother of 6 Got Onto the Crowded Bus
We Weisbergs are ALWAYS home for Shabbat. Except this week. This Shabbat we Weisbergs are scattered across the globe, in Venice, in a cottage in the Ontario wilderness, in Tel Aviv… And me? I’m on my way to spend a quiet Shabbat with my 8-year-old Yoni by the Kinneret in Tiberias. I thought Shabbat in […]
Read MoreOn the 4 Jews Murdered Today
This past Sunday I brought a meal to a young mom I’d never met who’d just given birth to her second child. Less than 2 hours later, I was about to take my son home from his horseback riding lesson when I turned the key and realized my car battery was dead. I called Yedidim, […]
Read MoreMy Visit to Ancient Shilo
I’ve been living in Israel for nearly 30 years, and my name is Chana, so I can’t really explain why it took me until today to visit the site most associated with my namesake: ancient Shilo. This is the exact place where Chana came to pray for a child, in the Holy Tabernacle, and where […]
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