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Holy Bananas
This winter, the bananas were missing from my greengrocer’s’ shelves. It was (and for a few more weeks, still is) a Sabbatical or Shmita year, the seventh year in the Torah’...
Aug 14, 2008
By Devora Lifshutz
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Let The Enemy Decide The Rules
By the time this article is posted the so-called ‘prisoner swap’ will have been completed. But we really need to be honest about this… it wasn’t really a prisoner swap. Prisoners...
Jul 17, 2008
By David Bogner
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Tales From Inside The Taxi
We reached our destination, but I was not ready to get out. “Please just leave the meter running and keep talking,” I asked my cab driver. Those words are a dream...
Jul 17, 2008
By Rabbi Leiby Burnham
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Still Missing
The sword is worse than death, famine is harder than the sword, captivity is the worst of all.” (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Bava Batra. 8b) It hangs like a yoke around my...
Jul 9, 2008
By Adina Hershberg
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It’s Not Gush Katif
“We’re at Nezer Hazani,” the woman sitting next to me called into her cell-phone. “I’ll be back in a couple of hours.” Obviously someone was arguing with her at the other...
Jun 19, 2008
By Ann Goldberg
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What the Taxi Driver Told Me…
Not being accustomed to riding in taxis in the United States, I don’t really know if the experience of driving with an Israeli taxi driver is so unique, but it certainly...
Jun 12, 2008
By Susan Schwartz
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Capturing the Wall: The Story of Shavuot 1967
A brilliant flash shattered the darkness. The lonely climber saw in that blink of an eye that he was almost at the top of the peak, and around him a gorgeous...
Jun 4, 2008
By Aaron Hirsh
![…in our hands](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Paratroopers-Kotel.jpg)
…in our hands
Every year I hold a private celebration of the reunification of Jerusalem. It is a treasured ritual whereby I lock the door to my office, turn off the lights, place a...
May 29, 2008
By David Bogner
![Yom Yerushalayim: For Thee, I Cry](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Yom-Yerushalaim.jpg)
Yom Yerushalayim: For Thee, I Cry
I am sure psychologists call is some fancy term, but permit me my own: Delayed Cry Reaction (DCR) Moshe’le (age 4) and Rochel (age 3) are playing in the park. Moshe...
May 29, 2008
By Rabbi Asher Brander
![Jerusalem Walking Tours](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Jerusalem-Old-City.jpg)
Jerusalem Walking Tours
On June 7th, 1967, East and West Jerusalem were reunited. When the Israeli flag was proudly raised above the Western Wall, some of the battle-weary paratroopers who had fought to regain...
May 29, 2008
By Lisa Alcalay Klug
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