Has my life changed since 7 October 2023? Irrevocably. Totally and completely. I measure what I say now, weighing up my words against what I have to lose. I choose not to argue with people who live in an echo chamber instead of embracing a more holistic understanding. I find myself fighting against polarities and binary notions in a world that has become more polarised and divisive. Read More
A Palestinian flag flies above a building right in the centre of my picturesque rural town of Castlemaine. It has been there for almost a year. It demonstrates, for those who raised it, a commitment to peace, love and support for the victims of a devastating war on the other side of the planet. Read More
Covid closed down my Israeli dance class permanently so I signed up for ‘Circle Dance’ which offered dances from around the world Read More
I can’t get the images of the three Israeli women hostages who were released over the weekend out of my mind. Read More
At the start of 2023, we decided to celebrate my son’s barmitzvah in Israel the following year. Read More
Ziemba was born in the Lodz Ghetto on September 9, 1942, one day before 13,000 children under ten were to be sent to an extermination camp. Arrangements were made for the infant to be hidden in a garbage truck and smuggled outside the Ghetto where a Christian Polish farmer retrieved him and took him home to be raised as his own. Read More
We usher the year out with a late Chanukah holiday, coinciding closely with Christmas Read More
Zaydee loves horseradish and often tells me that it comes from mixing a horse and a radish, but he can’t fool me. Read More
And speaking about Christmas music, I only learned recently many of the most popular holiday tunes were written by Jews. Read More
I have become like one of Cinderella’s wicked stepsisters trying valiantly to slip an outsized foot into a glass slipper. Read More
I wrote the poem in response to the Holocaust revisionism that crept into life during the pandemic when an appalling first-person essay by Canadian writer Debra Dolan compared the inconveniences of the pandemic to the way Jews must have felt when hiding for their lives in the Holocaust. Read More
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