November 6, 2020 A wedding when less is more By Barbara Sofer On a Sunday afternoon, I find myself standing on an outdoor stairwell that leads from the third floor of the oldest building of Hadassah-University Medical Center to an outdoor utility plaza that is attached to the second floor. Below me, the hospital carpenters […]
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October 23, 2020 Meeting the Druze women who make masks in the coronavirus age By Barbara Sofer Virucidal. Metallic nano-particles. Proprietary zinc coating, whatever that means. These are the terms used to describe the Israeli cloth face mask I’ve been wearing for protection. I follow the news: the mask has reputedly aced trials in German
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October 9, 2020 From the backwoods to Israel’s Torah By Barbara Sofer If you met this young mom in her sukkah in the city of Modi’in, her blond hair chastely covered, singing holiday songs with her husband and children, it would be hard to guess that Bracha Simcha Cramer grew up in the backwoods of
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September 25, 2020 ‘Living with’ By Barbara Sofer We all remember the Sbarro massacre on August 9, 2001, when 15 people were murdered, including seven children, and 130 people wounded in downtown Jerusalem. Last week’s Magazine featured a photo of the blackened eatery. At the reopening ceremony on September 12, 2001, the day after the