Waiting for Justice
My girlfriend told that one of the hardest things about being raised by Holocaust survivors was that nothing she ever went through evoked much sympathy…
Yehudit Channen
Yehudit Channen
Holocaust Remembrance Day: A Cruise and a Camp
HOLOCAUST DAY is 21-Apr. If the guard was especially cruel, he won a visit to the camp brothel, made up of women inmates who were given more food...
Holiness in Speech: Watch Your Mouth!
Words that would have made our mothers cringe in shame are now heard on the media regularly. Subjects that were once adults only are no longer withheld from children's ears...
Moment of Clarity
Recently I visited my son and his family. My four-year-old granddaughter, Hadassa Shira, sat on my lap and gazed at me intently. “Bubby, are you a hundred years old?"
All in the Family
Our family is not the fantasy family of our dreams. Not every parent is nurturing, not every sibling is a friend, not every child is balanced…
My Neighbor’s List
I stood there staring at the list. It looked like a bizarre recipe for a voodoo doll. I was shocked. How dare they keep track like this? How stingy! Why are they being so rigid?
You Better Believe It!
“Seriously?'' the evil inclination asks, “You really believe in miracles and that God listens to your prayers? Hahaha...don't forget to put your tooth under your pillow...”
Fight Dance
When Orly's husband gets upset, she is thrown back to her childhood and experiences all the fear she felt as a young girl trying to defuse a painful situation…
Too Quick to Comfort
We want to be privy to God's ways, especially the ones that cause us heartache and confusion. But this world is not the time or the place for Hashem to reveal the truth…
Getting to Know You
We need not feel that life is unfair or because we are suffering that Hashem doesn't love us, because He is right there with us feeling what we feel…
You Gotta Have Faith
Sara is terrified to be alone. She is afraid to get a job, afraid to leave her bad marriage and afraid to come out from the cocoon of junk food and movies…
Know Why!
Do we understand why good things happen to good people? We like to think we do but we really don't understand anything at all…