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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Devora Waysman 45 Archived Articles Found in Devora Waysman Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Aug 11 2010 The Secret Of Jewish Survival By Dvora Waysman This week, a friend asked me what I believed was the secret of Jewish survival, when so many mighty empires like the Greek and the Roman have long disappeared. Read Article 2) Posted Jul 07 2010 A Soldier's Rite of Passage By Dvora Waysman I have been to quite a few such ceremonies, as army graduations take place regularly in Israel. I always feel rather sad, as well as proud. My four children all served in the IDF, and I always hoped that their children would not need to. But now I am seeing grandchildren going through the same ordeals. While kids their age in the Diaspora are going off to college and preparing for a career, 18-year-old Israelis are undertaking to serve their country. It may eventually make them more mature, responsible adults but it is a tough burden for them to carry. Read Article 3) Posted Apr 14 2010 To Market, To Market... By Dvora Waysman When my grandchildren were toddlers we loved to play, "This little piggy went to market" and I always felt sorry for the little piggy who stayed home. Not for me the lure of shopping at Saks 5th Avenue, Harrods in London or with the film stars on Rodeo Drive. Give me a market every time. Read Article 4) Posted Jan 27 2010 HAPPY NEW YEAR! (That is, if you're a tree!) By Dvora Waysman Every year, on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, we celebrate a strange holiday - Tu B'Shevat, the New Year of the Trees. The name is a short form of 15th Shevat - tet = 9 and vav = 6. This year, Tu b'Shevat falls on 3rd February, one month before Purim. It also has other names - Chag Hailanot - the Festival of the Trees; and Chag Haperot - the Festival of the Fruit. Read Article 5) Posted Dec 30 2009 Sabbath From My Jerusalem Window By Dvora Waysman Shabbat descends on Jerusalem gently. Just as the sky darkens on Friday, there is the sound of the siren to usher it in. Traffic noises become muted and something mystical takes place. Most weeks we spend Shabbat with our children and grandchildren, all over Israel, but sometimes it is wonderful just to stay home and re-experience Shabbat in Jerusalem. Read Article 6) Posted Oct 14 2009 City of Prayers and Dreams By Devora Waysman Israel's late and much-loved poet, Yehuda Amichai, said it best: "The air over Jerusalem is saturated with prayers and dreams Like the air over industrial cities It is hard to breathe ." Read Article 7) Posted Aug 26 2009 A Desert Dream By Devora Waysman The last place you would be expecting to talk about Israel's Negev desert is on a cruise ship in the middle of the Mediterranean. Yet recently, on a dream cruise around the Greek Islands, that is exactly what I found myself doing. A fellow passenger, Deborah Golan, was telling me about an amazing program she directs in Yeroham, called "Atid Bamidbar" - "Future in the Desert." Read Article 8) Posted Jul 08 2009 Meeting Some Angels By Dvora Waysman A few years ago I was travelling alone on a book promotion tour around America, moving from city to city, hotel to hotel. One night, finding it hard to sleep, I randomly opened a Gideon Bible I found in the bedside drawer. These are provided free in every hotel across America. Even though it wasn't "our" Bible, I was struck by a quotation in Hebrews 13:2: "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels, unawares." Read Article 9) Posted May 20 2009 Jerusalem - The Eternal City By Dvora Waysman My routine every day probably doesn't differ much from yours. This morning, I went for an early morning walk, and enjoyed the pearly dawn before the sun broke through the clouds. Then before my workday began, I went to a local grocery store and bought some fresh bread for breakfast. Trivial, mundane things we all do everyday. The only difference is they took place in Jerusalem. Read Article 10) Posted May 13 2009 Mother's Day By Dvora Waysman The special day for mothers comes around every May, although in Israel it has been replaced by something called "Family Day," which takes place on an ambiguous date that seems to differ with everyone you ask. But who needs a "Mother's Day" to appreciate the woman who gave us life? Read Article 11) Posted Apr 29 2009 A Day To Rejoice By Dvora Waysman This year, on April 29, 5 Iyar, we celebrate Israel's 61st Independence Day. It follows right on the heels of Remembrance Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers, and this is the way it should be. It is said that independence is never given to a people. It has to be earned; and having been earned, it has to be defended. No country understands this more than the State of Israel. Read Article 12) Posted Apr 07 2009 Breakfast With The Birds By Dvora Waysman My morning rendezvous with the birds on the balcony of my Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem, home began many years ago, when I first met my son-in-law's mother, a Holocaust survivor. At the time, bread was highly subsidized in Israel, very cheap and many people threw it out when it became a day old. She told me how a crust of bread often meant the difference between life and death in Auschwitz and she would beg her neighbors to give her what they didn't want. What she couldn't transform into breadcrumbs, she would take down the street to a place near her home in Yavne where there were donkeys, and she'd feed it to them. Read Article 13) Posted Mar 18 2009 Israel's Ethnic Jeweler - Sarah Einstein By Dvora Waysman Everyone in Israel knew her as the Ethnic Jeweler. I knew her as a very dear friend, and she called me her "soul mate" because we shared birthdays mine on April 24, and hers a day later in the same year, but she maintained that since I was born in Australia and she in America, the time difference meant we could have been born at exactly the same time. Read Article 14) Posted Mar 04 2009 Purim - Holiday Of Mysteries By Dvora Waysman It's not a typical Jewish celebration. Purim is a holiday of masquerades, carnivals and spirits of the liquid kind, as denoted in the Talmud (Megillah 7b) that a Jew should drink "ad d'lo yada" - until he knows not the difference between "cursed be Haman" and "blessed is Mordechai." Read Article 15) Posted Feb 04 2009 Ashdod... A 'New' City with Ancient Roots By Dvora Waysman In recent weeks, the Israeli port city of Ashdod has had a lot of publicity, mainly because Hamas has managed to increase its rocket range and they have been falling there every day, even though it is 40 kilometers from the border. In normal times, it is not a city that gets much publicity, and rarely is it on a tourist's itinerary. But in many ways, it is a most interesting place to visit. Read Article 16) Posted Jan 28 2009 Tu b'Shevat: The Wonder Of Creation By Dvora Waysman So many of Judaism's festivals are marked by solemnity, but Tu b'Shevat enhances our calendar with a delightful holiday that everyone can enjoy. Read Article 17) Posted Dec 24 2008 Chanukah... Festival Of Light And Song By Dvora Waysman History tends to repeat itself or, as Sholem Aleichem put it in one of his stories, "The Wheel Makes a Turn." Read Article 18) Posted Nov 26 2008 When The Memories Come By Dvora Waysman Maybe it has something to do with growing older, but it's amazing how a few words, a casual incident, or an unexpected phone call can trigger memories that take us back decades, sometimes across oceans, to a life we have almost forgotten. Read Article 19) Posted Nov 12 2008 Rivka - A Complex Matriarch By Dvora Waysman The name "Rivka" has always been dear to me. It was one of my mother's names (Sarah Rivka) and was the name given to one of my granddaughters, Rivka Ta'ir, in her memory. Read Article 20) Posted Nov 05 2008 A Nurse In Israel By Dvora Waysman At the corner of my street in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem, there is a little pocket park. It has two benches, usually occupied either by new Russian olim or Filipino caregivers, having a break and meeting their compatriots. Read Article 45 Archived Articles Found in Devora Waysman Next 20 Articles >
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