If there ever comes a time when you think we can be friends again, I'd really like that. Because even though it was less than perfect, I still think of you and I still miss you.

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"If I don't hope for peace anymore, what do I hope for? I hope that Micha will also put his kids to sleep here, and not anywhere else. And I hope that somehow we'll survive here, and that despite everything, we'll build the kind of society here that will lead his kids to tell him, a few decades from now, on some dark, oppressively sad, tear-stained ( Read more... )

What a year it's been.

Happy new year, everyone.

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I leave tomorrow night.

I hate goodbyes, and I HATE change.

you know, one of these days i'm going to get fed up for the last time and i'm not going to be there next time you decide to look back and remember that we're friends. i deserve to feel like you care.

I think it's amazing that at 10am this morning, everywhere in Israel from Metulla to Eilat, the entire country stopped (like...people that are driving pull off to the side of the road) to hear the siren that sounds for two minutes on Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Today (from about 8pm last night to 8pm tonight) there are no commercials ( Read more... )

And this is why I'm in Israel.


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"You're shaking," said Katriel. "So am I. It's because of Jerusalem, isn't it? One doesn't go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That's one of its mysteries."
A Beggar in Jerusalem, Elie Wiesel

I realized that as much as I like Yeruham and my house and it's a nice place to come back to, that's all it is...a place to come back to. But going to ( Read more... )