Have You Ever Stuffed Tissues Down A Sink Drain?
She looks at me with those large brown eyes. I try to decipher her expression. There's a hint of sadness, doubt and even fear. She averts her gaze, trying to deny her act, as if she's trying to take it back.
Sarah: Prophetic Princess To Mankind
Our first matriarch’s original name, Sarai, meant “Princess to Her People.” When her name was changed to Sarah, its meaning took on a universal connotation: “Princess to Mankind.”
Miriam – Tambourines Of Rebellion
Bitter was the daily fare of the Jewish slaves in their Egyptian exile.
Princess Alice: Holocaust Heroine
At times, the Gestapo became suspicious of the royal princess and brought her in for questioning.
Remembering Esterka
Polish history and popular legend credits a beautiful Jewish girl named Esther, or Esterka, with the turn of Jewish fortunes in Poland.
Jewish Survival in the Face of Existential Threats: a Focus on Women
When I started to speak and my words drowned in tears, it was she who comforted me.
Changing Lanes
I am driving along in my small silver sports car. The pace of the cars around me has suddenly become frenzied; the flow of traffic has thickened considerably; I have hit morning rush hour on Toronto's busy thoroughfares. I need to merge into traffic on a very busy main road. But I am stopped, stuck, as the cars whiz past me.
A Mother’s Soldier: A Candid Discussion with a Toronto Mother About Her Son...
War. Guns. Bullets. Combat Officers. Tanks. Paratroopers. Unfortunately, we've all become far too familiar with these terms.
Juliette Samama: Volunteer Par Excellence
Volunteerism is in her DNA. Juliette Samama was born in Tunis, Tunisia, daughter of Rav Ishua Shtrug, the rabbi, chazan (cantor), mohel (circumsciser) and shochet (ritual slaughterer) of the city’s Jewish community. He performed the functions of four men, yet did not draw a salary.
Sarah Aaronson: The Heroine of NILI
Nearly eighty-five years have passed since Sarah Aaronson shot herself in the head, putting an end to the torture her Turkish interrogators inflicted upon her for refusing to disclose information about her associates in the NILI, an anti-Turkish spying organization that supplied the British with intelligence.
Early Zionist Pioneers
Ever since those first pioneers expressed their yearning for the Land, many other remarkable women have pioneered pathways to Zion and helped ensure our future inheritance in it.
Chava: The Mother Sets The Tone
How many of us realize that it was through this act that woman attained motherhood? Her punishment of pain and anguish turned into the blessing of bearing children.
Poopa Dweck: Aromas of Aleppo
I recently attended a very interesting lecture at Netanya's Laniado Hospital. The venue for the lecture may give you an erroneous impression: it had nothing to do with disease; on the contrary, it had much to do with the delights of good health.
Dr. Anita Turtletaub: The Beauty of Yiddish And The Merit Of Matchmaking
And yet, despite her lifelong interest and amazing contributions to Yiddish language and literature, her prime forte is matchmaking!
Feminine Soul
Dear Mrs. Weisberg,
The present era is particularly harsh, especially for the families in Israel.
A Life Of Inspiration
"My husband, the visionary, wanted to target people who had never kept Shabbos; I, the realist, asked how they would do it."
Yael Nitzan: The Museum Of Israeli Women
TV producer and author Yael Nitzan’s decades’ old dream is becoming a reality. Through the generosity of the Haifa municipality, an empty 200-year-old palace, once owned by an Arab sheikh, will be turned into “The Museum of Israeli Women.” Although in other countries there are museums documenting the accomplishments of women, Israel, with the world’s highest ratio of museums per person, has none dedicated to the women who contributed to the founding of the State of Israel and to its development.
Tatiana Edelshtein: The Triumph Of Faith
Now all the pain, fear and struggle were over and they were home. Yuli was safe and free, a hero returned to his land and people.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
“I think the Holocaust is possible again. I didn’t think so before I came to the United Nations, but I think so now.”
“Diplomacy regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict at the U.N. has nothing to do with peace, but is quite simply a continuation of war against Israel by other means.”
Hella Schuepper Rufeisen: Holocaust Heroine
Her walk and appearance exuded so much confidence that hardly anyone suspected she was anything other than what she pretended.
Holocaust Heroines: Hilda Pistiner
When I first saw Hilda Pistiner I believed she was a German tourist. Later, when I met her personally and found out she was an Israeli born in Bukovina, I labored under a second mistaken assumption: I believed she had been a pioneer in pre-State Israel, her fresh youthful blond looks untouched by the Holocaust. How wrong have I been!
Batsheva Sherman And Yad L’isha
Yad L’isha - Helping Hand for Woman is a Legal Aid Center and Hotline where free legal advice and representation is offered to women locked in marital prisons who would otherwise have nowhere to turn.
Haya Tzippa Pines: The First Lady of the “New” Jewish Settlement
The young pioneers of the First Aliyah did not opt for "peace now." They opted to settle and cultivate the Land of Israel, to build Jewish institutions, to revive the ancient Hebrew tongue and bring about a renaissance of the Jewish nation. And this they accomplished.
A Driving Lesson
I drove home from work on that uneventful sunny Tuesday afternoon as I do every other day.
Gone Amiss – Thoughts For Pesach Cleaning
The deeper message behind our vigilant search and removal of chometz for Pesach is the need to remove any vestige of spiritual chometz from our beings and personalities.