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May 28, 2018, 5:31 PM

My personal experience is that average Jewish and Arab Israelis are far better informed and more compassionate about the reality in Gaza than are others. It’s bizarre to live in Israel and observe reality, then read the pontifications of...

Oct 13, 2016, 7:39 AM

Paradise or Desert?

Yom Kippur 5777 in Tel Aviv. Streets emptied of cars, buses, motorbikes, scooters and trucks. Instead there were kids on rollerblades and bikes, people playing with their dogs, couples pushing strollers through a rapturous quiet. I walked in the bus lane,...

Jul 25, 2016, 7:15 AM

Israelis Aren’t Whiners

I can’t physically juggle — seriously, one item, max. But since moving to Israel, I now have to juggle my life. Should I take a six-hour round-trip (two buses, or a bus and train — plus walking dusty sidewalks...

Jun 9, 2016, 4:50 AM

Lotus Blossom at Sarona Market

A while ago, I took this photo of a lotus blossom floating on an oasis’s surface in Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, scene of tonight's terrorist attack. A lotus symbolizes the journey of the soul, rising from the mud...

May 5, 2016, 4:07 AM

Never Again…. With a Side of Joy

Most Tel Aviv stores and restaurants were shuttered today at dusk in readiness for “Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day." Tomorrow will be my first “Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah" in Israel. A two-minute long siren will remind us of the...

Sep 17, 2015, 3:29 PM

Breakfast among orange trees, spider plants and basil surrounded by a hedge that, as though inspired by Jacob's Ladder, seems to be reaching toward heaven. Thousands of years go, in the desert area now known as Beer Sheva, the ancient...

Sep 1, 2015, 2:30 PM

Relying on My Spiritual GPS

Course corrections from morning to night. I head for an Israeli bus station and end up on a train. Sometimes the busses I’m waiting for do not appear, as in “never," though my phone app continues to insist that...

Aug 10, 2015, 12:13 AM

Why Would Anyone Move to Israel?

So this post is for everyone who wants to know why I'm going to Israel and for how long. I get asked this question a lot. I'm moving to Israel because I love Israel, and feel I must be...

Apr 9, 2015, 7:12 AM

New entry in the hypocrisy olympics

New Entry in the Hypocrisy Olympics Welcome to the newest entry in the Hypocrisy Olympics, during which we confirm yet again that some deaths are accorded more outrage than others. Currently, in Syria’s Yarmouk Refugee camp, Palestinians are being beheaded by...

Feb 18, 2015, 6:38 PM

I keep thinking I'm in the bar scene from Star Wars... but no, I'm just visiting Israel. Last night while I was walking down a street in Nahariya, lost, I asked directions from whomever I met. I ended up talking...

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About Me

Sari Friedman's writing has been nominated for Pushcarts and has won several small awards. She has an MFA in writing from Columbia, publishes short fiction in literary magazines, and is looking for a publisher for two newly-written novels. More info at www.sarifriedman.net.