marissasalem

אין לי כוח A couple of weeks ago, I was on the phone with my best friend, both of us kind of lamenting these crazy times we’re living in (again), when her daughter needed to do something that was clearly difficult and emotionally challenging, something that would take real energy. And I heard her say, completely nonchalantly: “Mama, אין לי כוח.” And it totally floored me. Not because it’s a phrase I hadn’t heard before. It’s a fairly common phrase here (in theory, though rarely used). And...

My daughter Tal sculpted a סמל חטופים—hostage symbol—from clay, and pressed amber crystals into it. She collected the stones from the...

Herzl as a Hipster Originally published on Times of Israel, November 15, 2024. Read it there → [link] Theodor Herzl once foresaw a time...