I am but one of the legions of indigenous people wrested of our mother-tongues, mouths colonized. I want my words back.
Sometimes, distance only makes the heart grow more pained.
A story about a terror victim's mother preparing for their new normal.
Chaya's reports from the insides about the latest terror attack in Jerusalem.
It's not that your outcries, your war of words, your holiday visits and your donations do not mean the world to us. It means everything. And yet – it cannot be everything. Not this time around.
It looks like a breath of LIFE blown into dry bones...and those dry bones standing up to dance.
In Vayishlach, Yaakov is given a new name: Israel. We may learn from Yaakov's life journey that God is always with us even during the darkest days. Through crippling and painful darkness, He never abandons Israel.
When you send even one small note of solidarity, when you drop a line to ask how I'm doing and let me know you're thinking of me...it means everything to me.
To every single one of you, fellow Jewish brothers and sisters, who live in Israel, I say...
