Hi friends, These past few months have, for me, been defined by my brother’s accident, by fear and relief and pain and healing and confusion and strangeness and exhaustion and hope. Since October, I have been […]
Category: Stories of Days
Mutasim Ali, a friend and hero, granted Asylum in Israel
Back in mid-2014, I ran into Mutasim Ali on the train. We didn’t know each other well, then, but well enough to say hello and sit down next to each other. I was heading to […]
Four Year Blobversary (reflections on it all)
Four years, huh? (Blobversary’s One, Two and Three, including explanations of what a Blobversary is). Kayla and I just landed last night, back in Jerusalem, after two and a half weeks in the Bay Area, mostly […]
“You stopped him just because he’s Arab!” — “I should stab you, you Leftist!”
I was standing at the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, after a long day. This day included getting dragged out of the World Zionist Congress with another 15 or so Jews for passing out flyers […]
Fear and a little shame and running in the morning
This morning, I went on my weekly long run. Usually, I go into the Jerusalem forrest, and do a loop, but I’d noticed recently that during each of these runs, I’d be haunted by a […]
Survive and be decent [A story from Jerusalem]
JERUSALEM — Early this evening, I walked back from the Central Bus Station, in the direction of Nahlaot, my old neighborhood in central West Jerusalem, to visit family. I’d just finished a really good and […]
Jerusalem is boiling over
Waiting for the light rail next to the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, It is so hot I can barely think. Everyone I look at is wearing a similar expression, as if the heat is […]
”Maybe we should think about cutting the defense budget?” A conversation in a cab.
I get into a cab in central West Jerusalem, and tell the driver where I need to go. “Right, that’s near the big gas station?” “Could be,” I say, laughing, “I’ve never been. I trust […]
The Orange Tree: An Israeli reserve soldier speaks about loss
Originally posted on The Leftern Wall:
Guest writer: E. On the 22nd day of your 8th Order* you get 24 hours off. All you want to do is run away, to some small island of…
The Leftern Wall’s Top 14 from 2014
2014 was a heartrending year, filled with some devastatingly low lows and a few moments of decency shining between the cracks. There’s been substantial interest in the goings-on here in Israel-Palestine in general (especially in July-August, 2014), and […]
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