Yes We Can

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Reading from Goddess of Battle in the most appropriate venue possible: Yafa book store in Jaffa, a Jewish-Arab suburb of Tel Aviv. Thank you to the owner Mic...

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I stopped in a boutique downtown Jerusalem wine and beer shop yesterday. It's a landmark in downtown Jerusalem, a store that's been around forever. It's live...

A good friend of mine from Gaza, an amazing man who tries to maintain sanity and objectivity in an ocean of insanity, sent his son to school in Israel, a spe...

When I watch or read news coverage on Jerusalem, what I see is a conflict-driven city where Palestinians and Jews argue over control. But what the news fails...

The media rarely deems stories of people reaching across the conflict news worth covering. But when a Jewish nurse at a Jerusalem hospital breastfed a nine-m...

In a class I took last semester as part of a masters degree in creative writing, I did a presentation on the wise women of the book of Samuel; one from Tekoa...

This post is dedicated to a courageous, brave and beautiful woman I heard speak at a meeting between Jewish and Muslim women in a town in the West Bank. It w...

Recently I had the honor of meeting a Jewish woman who lost her son who was killed when he went out for a hike with a friend, just a walk in the desert he lo...

I just realized that the publication of my book coincides with 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Half a century. A long time. Enough time to ...

During the last war with Gaza, my youngest daughter, still in elementary school, spent classes packing care packages for the southern Israeli villages under ...