October 2021

October 22, 2021 21 years after ‘dying,’ Shimon Ohana celebrates son’s bar mitzvah – opinion By Barbara Sofer I might have forgotten the upcoming anniversary if I hadn’t run into Avi Rivkind in the Zoti Coffee Shop in the Hadassah Ein Kerem mall, where medical staff recharge their caffeine. Twenty-one years this week. The Second Intifada. […]

October 8, 2021 Can love (of Israel) conquer all? By Barbara Sofer For decades, I have taken on the jolly job of buying the candy bags for the children who stand under the tallit and say the Torah blessings on Simhat Torah. The palpable and somewhat puzzling excitement of the children, most of whom hail from