Tamrurim תַּמְרוּרִ֔ים

Tamrurim (Guideposts) are brief thoughts about Israel.

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  • It’s Personal

    My dear cousin Maya was in the middle of making me a voice note on WhatsApp, telling me her four children were hanging out in the mamad (safe room) watching Full House while she was taking a moment of calm to do some dishes and suddenly mid sentence she says, “siren have to go love you!” At that moment my red alert app went off too. And then a moment later she sends me this video she took.

    When the video comes from someone you love and not from the news (peppered with media bias), it hits the heart in an even more profound way. It isn’t that videos like this from other war zones don’t make us feel helpless, or don’t make us feel sad or angry, but when it’s happening to YOUR people, right over their homes where their kids are watching TV, it just hits differently.

  • 600 Days

    This is a staggering amount of time.

    A lump in our throats, tears in our eyes, pain in our kishkes, ache in our hearts. For 600 days.

    Possibly 20 still alive, 58 total held captive.

    Devastating.

  • Same Same.

    I wrote this Facebook post in July 2014 with this accompanying image. I could have written it today:

    It is important for my colleagues and friends to understand my views on this … I believe Israel military is in a fight with Hamas (a terrorist organization) to defend its citizens and not with the country and citizens of Gaza, Palestine. The nuance is that Hamas runs Gaza …. Imagine if the KKK ran our government. Imagine if the state of New Jersey were surround fully by states that allowed the KKK and similar terrorist groups to run their State Government or at least heavily influence the social and psycho status of the residents.