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An American-Israeli writer, I mentor writers and organize writing classes in English in Israel. Latest publication: “Side Effects” in Harpur Palate, Vol. 18, No.1
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Author Archives: Judy Labensohn
An Open Letter to The Mayor of Jerusalem, Mr. Nir Barkat, Concerning the Establishment of Sabbath Peace in the City of Peace
Dear Mr. Mayor, On the lovely spring afternoon of Shabbat Tazriya-Mezora, April 25, 2015, at exactly 5:30 PM, I desecrated the Holy Sabbath by entering my partner’s car in Moshav Beit Zayit, where we live, and drove to the corner … Continue reading
Posted in Jerusalem, Protest
Tagged City of Peace, Sabbath peace, Shabbat Shalom, Shabbes
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How Blogging 101 Heightened the Boycotting Issue
Yesterday was the final day of Blogging 101, a free course offered by the happiness team at WordPressU. I think it’s fair to say I failed. The course is wonderful if you have four-six hours/day for blogging business. That includes … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, Identity, Israel
Tagged Blogging 101, boycotting issue, brilliant manipulator, election results
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The Writer Kvetches about Place
I am a city mouse living the life of a country mouse. David and I live in Beit Zayit, a moshav west of Jerusalem. This place was our compromise because David does not like cities and I did not want … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Bring Out the Cocoa
Once I realized that my nose surgery was not going to deform me forever and that I didn’t care if I had an unseemly blackish-brown scab the size of a shekel on the side of my nose, I buckled down … Continue reading
A Day in the Slice of a Writer
It’s 12:22 PM and I still haven’t been able to sit down to work on my memoir. I did my morning stretches, drank hot water with lemon, followed by black coffee, ate my morning oatmeal and millet with date, walnuts … Continue reading
Posted in Not writing, Uncategorized
Tagged Mohs, morpheaform basal cell carcinoma, slice of life
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Why I’ve Changed My Attitude towards Engineers
My inner curious George has been hyper-active over the past few months. The engineering feat developing opposite my kitchen window pulls me and my iPhone camera out of the house on Saturday afternoons. I’m documenting the building of the new … Continue reading
Kaddish with Rembrandt
Even I cried when I just read my last blog post about my late mother. It made me want to document the year of mourning, or at least the first three months. Here goes. After the shloshim I vowed to … Continue reading
Crossing the Jordan
My mother died the same day all the international airlines cancelled their flights to and from Israel. To get to the funeral in Cleveland, I imagined swimming across the Jordan River, hailing a cab to Amman, flying to Istanbul with … Continue reading
A Protected Room of Our Own
Only yesterday during the siren did I realize my room of my own is not protected: no metal shutters on the bathroom window, no metal doors on the sliding glass doors. The room of my own was so open to … Continue reading