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Two weeks ago, one of the biggest groups of olim left South Africa to live in Israel. We caught up with a few of them. Hymie...
January 2020. The new school year starts well. The King David Victory Park (KDVP) English Department seems set for another good year. We have now been...
Herzlia High School Principal Marc Falconer spoke to his matric teachers to find out how they weathered the 2020 year. This is what he gleaned: As...
As I sat on my bed watching my twin girls sleeping peacefully, I was anxious and wide awake, waiting for the stroke of midnight to feel...
The year 2020 was the year my students became my teacher. The world as we know it changed last March when, in the middle of the...
My beloved Jonathan, our two boys, our household staff, and I battled the COVID-19 V2 variant. Of all of us, it hit me the hardest. I...
When the text message popped up on my phone at the end of December, I gave a huge sigh of relief. The message was from my...
A year ago, we were holidaying in South Africa, visiting family and friends, and my late parents’ graves in the Pinelands Jewish Cemetery. We were also...
Exactly one year ago today, I was in Varanasi, a holy city in India on the banks of the holy Ganges (or Ganga) River. One of...
As Israel led the world in inoculating its citizens against COVID-19 – earning the new title, “vaccination nation” – I got my first Pfizer shot on...
It was a hot summer evening on 6 December when I felt the first chill. Surely it wasn’t COVID-19? My husband and parents had it two...
COVID-19 has taken many community stalwarts in the past few weeks. Just two are my in-laws Barney and Esther Singer, who celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary...
I’m hardy, I’m a traveller. I climb mountains and hike for weeks in remote forests. I never get sick. But I did. 2020 what have you...
I’m Nicola Date, a 32-year-old arts manager, comedian, and costume designer, mother, and two-time COVID-19 survivor. I have had a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse through hospitalisation. When...
I had heard that “when one child writes matric, we all write matric”. As a first-time matric parent of twins, I feared the worst. On reflection,...
2020 was to be the year that my baby was in matric. We had been through matric three years before with my older daughter, so we...
