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Paula R. Stern is CEO of WritePoint Ltd., a leading technical writing company in Israel. Her personal blog, A Soldier's Mother, has been running since 2007. She lives in Maale Adumim with her husband and children, a dog, too many birds, and a desire to write.
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By Paula Stern
Eizenkot, resign! You can't send a 19-year-old boy into battle then hang him to dry for a mistake...IF he made a mistake
By Paula Stern
Yotam Shmuel is 18-months-old and will never walk on his own legs due to the Chords Bridge terrorist
By Paula Stern
Terrorism is not so much who the victim is as what the attacker's intentions were.
By Paula Stern
I have not come to praise Yossi Sarid but to bury him. Sarid, the epitome of failure.
By Paula Stern
It is no accident that CNN writes as it does - its anti-Israel agenda consistently shines through.
By Paula Stern
For 5 whole minutes today in Europe I spoke Hebrew; light shone into my world-home in a distant land
By Paula Stern
When ___(any Arab leader) leaves word to be awakened when his soldier is killed, there will be peace
By Paula Stern
Am Yisrael Chai-the nation of Israel lives. If that bothers our neighbors and others- so be it.
By Paula Stern
Leave Israel, Yariv. Find another place to live which you think shares the ideals you believe in.
By Paula Stern
All over Israel today, people are laughing and smiling… It’s a bit ironic because honestly, we’re going through some rough times. A man who had moved here weeks ago was just stabbed. He’s 71 years old. And an 80 year old woman was stabbed too. Barbaric. Enough, after days and days of similar attacks, to […]
By Paula Stern
The Left's shifting to the Right;the Right welcomes them because regardless of side we're one people
By Paula Stern
The People of Israel Live: We are defiant; we are determined; and most of all, we are dedicated.
By Paula Stern
7 victims: 4 policemen, 1 soldier, 2 civilians. All to carry scars for life.
By Paula Stern
Dear World: This morning, a Palestinian woman blew herself up on the road that goes past my city.
By Paula Stern
When you are a soldier's mother, you cope by learning the concept of "one day at a time."
By Paula Stern
What is left to say when a 16 year-old is dead? How will her mother and family endure without her?
By Paula Stern
The US doesn’t want Pollard & he doesn’t want America- release him with 1 condition: No return to US
By Paula Stern
Dear World, Watch as we, the Jewish people, rise above a nuclear Iran, as we have all other threats.
By Paula Stern
Pres. Obama, you foolishly speak of peace and agreements with a nation sworn to annihilate Israel.
By Paula Stern
Possible, but not easy to "out-bargain" an Iranian; you need guts and strength. Obama lacks the guts
By Paula Stern
You should be "seated" when you hear this joke; it's got a "bang-up" punchline!
By Paula Stern
I encourage the Times of Israel editors to re-balance their site before ToI loses all credibility
By Paula Stern
Note the rocks' size in the hands of these Arabs as they prepare to attack the Light Rail
By Paula Stern
It’s time to stand up against the bias & no longer accept the constant UN prejudice against Israel.
By Paula Stern
Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld, injured in a terror attack in Samaria, has died (HYD)
By Paula Stern
Allah is NOT merciful: Stabbing, beheading, shooting innocents is barbaric & cowardly acts of terror
By Paula Stern
UN says Hamas tried to warn us of rocket attacks? I was here. Not once did those...I want to scream
By Paula Stern
The difference between the IDF and Hamas is the difference between Good and Evil
By Paula Stern
Arabs climbed onto the yeshiva fence and..God, they shot..firecrackers into the yard starting a fire
By Paula Stern
Doctors treated the terrorist. I can't imagine how it feels to work to save the life of a terrorist.
By Paula Stern
France not wanting to be Judenrein is understandable; Isn't what's best for French Jews the issue?
By Paula Stern
If Gaza fires rockets at Israel and misses, Gaza is still guilty and should be punished. Hard.
By Paula Stern
100% of the 'First Responders' helping those Arab school girls were Jewish and they didn't hesitate!
By Paula Stern
Josh Earnest told journalists not to expect a meeting between Obama & Bibi soon; That's OK with us!
By Paula Stern
If you leave it to the world news, you'd never know the numerous miracles Israel's doing in Nepal...
By Paula Stern
My final reaction remains - who builds a mountain of ashes, who turns it into a "tourist" site?
By Paula Stern
All Israel walks beside them, holding them in our hearts, listening, our hearts breaking with theirs
By Paula Stern
That Soren Kam, a totally unrepentant Nazi murderer, died a free man is a failure of justice
By Paula Stern
Wherever you are Chabad gives you that missing piece–the home you left behind, nourishing body&soul
By Paula Stern
Jews caring for one another, that is how I would explain Israel to someone.
By Paula Stern
The greatest thing about leaving Israel is the joy in returning, hearing/seeing/smelling coming home
By Paula Stern
At the entrance to attract attention beside copies of Fifty Shades of Grey was Hitler's Mein Kampf
By Paula Stern
As Israel votes I'll go to an ancient synagogue in India and ask God to guide the Jewish voters
By Paula Stern
A stone-marker was made for his grandfather, 1 of 85,000 Jews murdered in that field by the Nazis
By Paula Stern
Kerry...and Bide...and EVERY DEMOCRAT just happened to be unavailable to meet with Netanyahu.
By Paula Stern
I'd rather you label me a concerned Jew, an Israeli. Someone who cares about the future of my nation
By Paula Stern
"They all attack each other" is how David described campaign tactics. "Welcome to politics, my son,"
By Paula Stern
3 men pin the terrorist. In the white shirt is Jerusalem's Mayor Barkat, taking a hands-on approach
By Paula Stern
Today's France for Jews is to walk in a place, feeling your being watched, possibly threatening you.
By Paula Stern
I have never seen this in any other place - but sometimes, it rains MUD in Israel.
By Paula Stern
Dan Uzan is a hero today, like all security guards in Israel,sacrificing his life to save other Jews
By Paula Stern
Impossible, after 6 long years of Obama's reign to ignore his total disdain for Bibi,Israel, Judaism
By Paula Stern
Years after the 2nd Intifada, I still listen for ambulance sirens, wondering if it's just...or 2...
By Paula Stern
I love that most of my kids don't actually read this blog - it gives me a freedom.
By Paula Stern
The smell may be gone, but the air remains poisoned by the hatred.
By Paula Stern
My son continues to move slowly towards the army while working to complete his final year in high school.
By Paula Stern
It's a strange feeling to known that a missile is flying towards your country and there is nothing you can do about it.
By Paula Stern
I'll start by explaining that in Israel, a common phrase is "yehiye b'seder" - it will be okay.
By Paula Stern
At one point the Dr. asked me if I was famous because of the blog...
By Paula Stern
There are ashes that remain in the ovens, ashes piled into a mountain in Maidanek.
By Paula Stern
The list of countries who rushed to help during the Oklahoma tornadoes is tiny.
By Paula Stern
As a woman, I am very sensitive to comparing rape to...well, virtually anything.
By Paula Stern
You dare to hold Jonathan Pollard in prison for 29 years for spying on an ally...when you've been doing the same thing all along?
By Paula Stern
I wish, just once, if they were going to accuse us of something, that it was at least halfway credible.
By Paula Stern
Two things I miss in Israel: Sunday and Snow
By Paula Stern
Despite repeated promises by virtually every Israeli government in the last decade or two, E1 remains largely vacant.
By Paula Stern
I keep putting myself in the same situation - sure, I can handle this...um...oops, no I can't.
By Paula Stern
Our Prime Minister must, in no uncertain terms, make it clear that the owners of the archives are the Iraqi Jews.
By Paula Stern
As you probably know, when you start to search for something, Google will, as it always does, offer you suggestions.
By Paula Stern
At the door to the building, I put my purse and a bag on the guard's table...but he wasn't looking at them. He was looking at me...and down at the belt.
By Paula Stern
Each year, tens of thousands of Jews take one of these days and go to Hebron...
By Paula Stern
I'm not in a hurry to talk too much about him yet; I'm keeping him to myself a bit longer.
By Paula Stern
They stood for several minutes talking about the engine. I didn't understand a word they said.
By Paula Stern
I can’t let the day pass without some reminder, some tribute and yet what words have we not said.
By Paula Stern
What right does Assad have to shoot missiles at Israel if Obama strikes his country?
By Paula Stern
Israel is not anxiously awaiting a US attack on Syria.
By Paula Stern
When Elie questioned the deal, Tamar started getting annoyed.
By Paula Stern
I feel I have the best of doctor and I'm looking forward to being able to use my arm fully...
By Paula Stern
In the days and hours before my operation, many of my friends, even strangers that I meet, are asking me for my name and when the operation will be.
By Paula Stern
Three incidents have once again reinforced what I have known all my life.
By Paula Stern
When a doctor told her there was no hope... she decided not to listen.
By Paula Stern
There is inside of me a part that thinks our greatest victory, even if the world does not recognize it, is simply that we are not like them.
By Paula Stern
An hour later -- I kid you not, the hospital called. The surgery is in less than 2 week...
By Paula Stern
Ari Lesser - you're great! I hope this video reaches around the world...
By Paula Stern
This morning, the jets have been flying and, child that I am inside, I keep going to my balcony and watching them.
By Paula Stern
Hirsi Ali was handed the microphone and, 16 months later, her words remain imprinted on my brain: "Even if you give them Jerusalem, there will be no peace."
By Paula Stern
I have been searching for the answer to this question...who did they kill...those 104 we are about to release? I know of a mother and her three children; I know of a grandfather stabbed in the back. I don't know all the names but it is for these we weep today - once killed by […]
By Paula Stern
It was clear, even in the first minutes, that it was not a terror attack...
