Early Shabbat morning, I watched Night Will Fall, an HBO documentary, which was released in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.  It depicted excruciating footage of several camps, including Buchenwald, my grandfather's prison and personal hell-on-earth from January 1945 until liberation. My ...

Years ago a new neighbor asked me where we would be purchasing our tree. "We're Jewish." I said, assuming that no further explanation was necessary. "So?" She pressed. "So we don't celebrate Christmas," I said. "Why?" She insisted. Why? Because ...

Growing up in Israel, Friday nights and holidays were always spent around my grandmother's table. In the tiny Jewish nation, family is never too far away and it is understood that holidays are spent together.  In the vastness of America, ...

This summer has been a difficult one in Israel, to say the least.  One of Israel's most precious gems, the Mediterranean Sea, was under-utilized during the conflict. Photos and videos of parents and children fleeing the shoreline for shelter have ...

I've had my share of ups and downs with Facebook, including periods of inactivity and deactivation.  I even ranted publicly a few months ago about the Phony Facebook Phenomenon. While I still believe in general, that technology is more alienating ...

Every year on Yom HaShoah I am haunted by my family's history, reading countless testimonials about the Holocaust, yet I am silent about my own. I always believed that it was not my story to tell.  But it is my ...