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May 4, 2018, 10:37 PM

The Greatest Disease Affecting the Jewish People is Ignorance

I met Richard Boruch Rabinowitz shortly after I arrived in New York City. While I already had my circle of Jewish friends in the city, I quickly found myself part of a more orthodox community as well as I...

Apr 23, 2018, 8:20 PM

Spreading the Beauty of Israel Without the Political Buzz

Such as with many people nowadays, I started to talk with Moti online. This is always the easy part; to change a message with a stranger whom you never met and then you can decide if to pursue more...

Sep 21, 2017, 8:48 AM

“All of you Hungarians are anti-Semites”

“It’s in your blood. All of you.” He looks at me. Right in the eye. All I can read is resentment. But there is sadness, too. “All of you, Hungarians, are anti-Semites. It’s just in your blood.” I’m standing there...

Aug 20, 2017, 11:32 AM

Let’s not mix terrorism in Europe with anti-Semitism

There is an Australian 13-year-old boy that is still missing after the van rampage in Barcelona. There is a Hungarian woman who has just left the hospital. The first two confirmed victims named are an Italian man and a...

Jul 6, 2017, 7:14 AM

I Might Have Been an Anti-Semite

Some of you might know me by now. But if not, naim meod, my name is Virag, and I am a non-Jew who is obsessed with Israel, the people who are lucky to be Jews, and I am also...

Apr 22, 2017, 8:14 PM

What happens when a Christian enters a Shabbat service? Tears!

I was thinking which pants to put on: the dark leather one or that black one that isn't so tight on my body. I went with the second one. It was a chilly Spring evening as I walked through Central Park, up...

Apr 14, 2017, 12:49 AM

What did being a Zionist mean in the DP camps?

I am a Christian who just moved to NYC to take on a graduate program in Judaism. I can't read half of my sourcebook as it is either in Hebrew or what's even better, in Aramaic. But what I do...

Mar 13, 2017, 4:56 AM

‘The Settlers’: and how this documentary fails to bring value

I’m not sure who Shimon Dotan was aiming for. He certainly couldn’t convince me. But then again, what did he try to conceive me about? Let’s discuss Shimon Dotan, Romanian-Israeli filmmaker’s new movie, The Settlers. When you do a documentary film, you must...

Nov 11, 2016, 5:25 PM

Hundreds Gather in Manhattan to Shame UNESCO

Following the third ad absurdum resolution by the UNESCO denying that Judaism and Christianity have any connection to the Temple Mount and Western Wall, it's time to unite and get loud. Over 100 people gathered in front of the Israeli...

Oct 13, 2016, 7:49 AM

I Most Probably Did It Wrong But I Did Yom Kippur

I'm not here to offend anyone. If you read my past writings, you'll know I'm not here for that. And if you've ever read anything from me, you’ll also know that I am a Christian but am much closer...

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About Me

Virag is a Christian Hungarian who, after sharing her life with a charming Israeli, started her (often painful) journey towards Judaism. By chance (or not) today she works with a handful of pro-Israel organizations as a new media manager and writes raw-honest personal narratives about her internal identity dilemmas as an attempt to find a way between her Christian roots and the novel feeling of being drawn into Judaism