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Jun 12, 2018, 8:13 AM

No place like home

When I was growing up, at some point my parents were able to buy a house. We had a yard, a driveway, enough bedrooms, and even an attic where we could hide in the dark and tell ghost stories....

Apr 18, 2018, 5:01 AM

The long minute too short

“There’s a grief that can’t be spoken, there’s a pain goes on and on / empty chairs at empty tables…” (Les Miserables) Tonight, less than two hours ago, the country stood in silence with only the wail of the siren...

Apr 12, 2018, 2:03 AM

Making it count

There is something about lighting a match, watching it flare up, and then lighting a candle from the flame which still retains its own light even though it has given of itself, which I find both peaceful and inspiring,...

Mar 30, 2018, 10:41 PM

The Price of Freedom

Tonight is the first night of Passover, the holiday where the Jewish people were released from slavery in Egypt, and went out to receive the Torah in the desert, where they met their God. Many of our holidays have...

Mar 16, 2018, 1:31 PM

Sometimes loss feels like a big ball of pain in your middle, making it hard to breathe, hard to swallow. Sometimes it is the exact opposite, a feeling of aching emptiness, a hole that nothing can ever fill. Sometimes...

Mar 2, 2018, 3:11 PM

A Modern Purim Story

When we read the megillah every year, we listen hard and try to imagine ourselves there, to think what it could have felt like. I mean, of course, Megillat Esther, which we just read twice this week. I also...

Feb 13, 2018, 1:52 AM

Broken Promises

In the quiet streets of Efrat, you can usually hear tractors, diggers and cement trucks working during the day. They are building new apartment buildings. I don't know why they bother. Even if you listen carefully, you can't hear...

Jan 16, 2018, 2:21 PM

The Long Road Home

Let me tell you a story. I'm not sleeping anyway, as tonight is my firstborn son's first night on base, which at the moment I only know is somewhere in…Israel. We made aliyah 11 years ago, and yet both my...

Nov 30, 2017, 2:10 AM

It’s Not Over

As the sun set on Netiv Avot tonight, it was still possible to see a column of smoke rising from the hilltop to graze the low-lying clouds above from Elazar’s sister city of Efrat. This smoke was from the...

Nov 21, 2017, 7:56 AM

Path of Destruction

When They Came for Me #17Homes If you don’t have time to read about the double standards that are being perpetrated and the destruction for no reason that will happen (again!) if we don’t stop it, just take a minute and...

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About Me

Mori Sokal is an ELEVEN year veteran of Aliyah, mother of three wonderful children (with her wonderful husband) and is an English teacher in both elementary and high school in the Gush Etzion-Jerusalem area. She has a Masters’ degree in teaching, and has published articles in Building Blocks, the Jewish Press magazine.