As the child of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father, I’m no stranger to the odd identity crisis. The capacity to hold two…

Over the past six weeks I have had the wonderful opportunity of volunteering with Magen David Adom, the ambulance service in Israel. I have…

Thinking of Europe, the words that came to my mind were glamorous, beautiful and safe. Thinking of Israel, the words were ancient, distant and…

Israeli elections 2.0 is a chance for parties to up their game, like, say, adding more women to the list, or ditching that sex…

I will always remember my grandmother sitting at the piano. She would be studying the sheet music, hands fluttering on the keyboard, her ears…

Israel almost had the makings of a gender revolution in politics recently. Things were looking up for women in the lead-up to the April…

Australia has a history with the Jews.  The most famous quote from the failed 1938 Evian Conference, convened to rescue the Jews from Hitler,…

It was incomprehensible. Though I understood the words, I could not understand the announcement being made. The Hand in Hand school was on fire?…

Israel. From all corners of the world, Jews come, like birds guided only by some internal instinct. An instinct to see, to touch, to…

My sister and I never expected to find Naomi’s diary. Indeed, for many years, we did not even know of its existence. A non-descript,…