June 14, 2024 How an award ceremony reunited descendants of two saviors of Denmark’s Jews – opinion By Barbara Sofer King Frederik X of Denmark agreed to be blessed. With a black kippah on his head, neuroscientist Haim Sompolinsky of Jerusalem recited the blessing Jews say when we meet a king – first in English, […]
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May 31, 2024 Hamas and Boko Haram: Why do students support the worst humans on Earth? – opinion By Barbara Sofer No matter how I try, I can’t get my mind around it. I’ve read the articles about how many of the campus protesters aren’t all university students and that they’re antisemitic outsiders, often professional
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May 10, 2024 76 + 1 reasons I love Israel – opinion By Barbara Sofer This is my 20th straight year writing new reasons why I love Israel. I thought it might be difficult this year, Israel’s 76th birthday, but it wasn’t. Just the opposite. Beneficence and heroism shine through the dark clouds of these
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May 3, 2024 Holocaust survivors: When the abused become healers – opinion By Barbara Sofer “If you had a childhood of privation like theirs [the Palestinians’], or if your parents did, you’d want revenge. How can you blame them?” Assuming his preferred pedagogical posture, that’s what the professor from University of California Berkeley told me from across
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April 19, 2024 Four men in a tank: A story of camaraderie among IDF tank crews – opinion By Barbara Sofer E was already 26 when he enlisted in the IDF. Before that, he studied full time at the Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Old City. He was married and a father, and he was ready to
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April 5, 2024 Yellow nail polish: Remembering the Gaza hostages and Hamas’s victims – opinion By Barbara Sofer It’s a pinky-sized gesture, but when my fingers are typing, cooking, or touching a loved one, I see the yellow nail polish, and it reminds me of the murdered and the hostages. I’m a grandmother and not particularly
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March 22, 2024 ‘The sky rained rockets’: Wounded IDF soldier shares his story By Barbara Sofer Every single mission – and thankfully there are many from abroad – that comes to admire the new Gandel Rehabilitation Center on Hadassah’s Mount Scopus wants to meet at least one wounded soldier, to hear about the experience of
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March 8, 2024 Meet the forensic dentist identifying Israel’s dead through their teeth By Barbara Sofer In her day job, she brings back radiant smiles. Dr. Esi Sharon-Sagie is director of the Oral Rehabilitation Post Graduate Program at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine. She is heralded for her keen eye for aesthetics, her
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February 23, 2024 While Israelis worry over the hostages, we must not forget the wounded – opinion By Barbara Sofer I wish I could show you their pictures and write out their names. Each wounded soldier is a bona fide hero. But in an effort to protect our soldiers wounded in action in Gaza from
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January 26, 2024 Israel-Hamas War: Should children visit Hostages Square? – opinion By Barbara Sofer Should children visit Hostages Square in Tel Aviv? The question recently came up in an adult dinner conversation among Israelis in Jerusalem. Let’s think about what a stressful time the children of Israel have been experiencing since the war began. Running from
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