Category Archives: Israel

A New Yavneh?

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Judy Labensohn

On Monday night at the end of Tu b’Av  I can choose between going to a protest in Mevasseret with Rap, Pop and Mediterranean music or to a protest in Jerusalem with Rabbi Fruman and Ehud Banai. I choose the latter. In the … Continue reading →

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Summer Slogans for Social Justice

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Judy Labensohn

The demonstration last Saturday night  in downtown Jerusalem, during which protesters shouted for a revolution (ma-ah-peh-cha) as the cure for privatization (hafrata), felt more like a carnival than a protest march. Sophisticated, ironic and funny slogans and signs created the … Continue reading →

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Dish Above, 1967

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Judy Labensohn

Thank God or the editors that the big events in Jewish history took place during what would become known later as “the academic year.” Otherwise, we all may have missed Yom Kippur, the Exodus, even the Ten Commandments. After I … Continue reading →

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God’s Army

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Judy Labensohn

A man came to the door on Friday afternoon selling God. Nobody talked about prices. The man, Reuven Horowitz, could check my mezuzah, give a blessing for fertility and help with salvation. He didn’t yet live in the moshav, but … Continue reading →

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Fire, Fire

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Judy Labensohn

It’s 6 PM on July 17th, two days before the 17th of Tammuz, and small planes are circling my house. The people in them are trying to assess the fire raging in the Jerusalem Forest below Yad V’Shem, not far … Continue reading →

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Flag Talk

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Judy Labensohn

The day after I created a new flag for the July 15th Solidarity March in Jerusalem, I learned that the Ministry of Education is requiring nursery school and kindergarten teachers to raise the Israeli flag every Sunday morning during the … Continue reading →

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Boycott Birthday

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Judy Labensohn

This might be the last day I can advocate boycotting yogurt  from a West Bank settlement before I am called into the police station and told that I have broken a law. The controversial “Boycott Law”  may come before the … Continue reading →

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