She was so beautiful—like a poem silenced and given no name. She was just what the world fears most—a woman put together, need unmet, yet cleverly resolved and blameless. A Jewish woman who’d survived numerous rewrites and script changes. Read More
I was never comfortable with the identity of victim associated with being Jewish. Yes, we were victimized in the past. But today, the wholesale destruction of all of Gaza by Israel shifts the narrative. Now we are seen, globally, as victimizers. Read More
Lou Gehrig’s Disease. A slow, degenerative death sentence. Charlie refused intravenous feeding. He would rather starve. Read More
The Anne Frank House revealed a photograph of a roundup happening right on our doorstep. The Diary had gripped me as a child, but that photo chilled my adult heart. Read More
How might we collectively, use this unique moment in time, to explore, learn and share innovative ways of supporting start-up entrepreneurs, not just in Israel, but globally, to focus on serving humanity, today and in the future? Read More
The Purim story is “dependent on a female heroine taking a stand against a patriarchal monarchy, thus linking Jewish liberation directly to the feminist experience.” Read More
As a child of Holocaust survivors, I am indeed a Jew learning to live anew in a hostile world. Whilst going to Israel intending to provide strength and support, I returned strengthened that I am not on this journey alone. Read More
She began to lead the crowd in the infamous, dreaded chant: “from the river to the sea/Palestine will be free”, which was echoed by the entire audience at full volume. Read More
Hamas is equally a threat to Palestinians seeking their own homeland as it is to the future of Israel. Read More
Israel has fascinated me since my youth. I came of age at the time of the Six Day War. It was a time of heroes and miracles. Read More
And then, the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel occurred and its unrelenting aftermath. Consequently, pretty much everything I was covering curriculum wise felt trivial, except the teaching of this play. Read More
