יום ראשון, כ׳ תמוז תשפ״וSunday, July 5, 2026
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A minute and a half? What if the kids are upstairs with earphones on and they don't hear the siren?
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
Israel is God's promise fulfilled; a tiny people wanting to live in peace, prepared to go to war.
We are told "From dust we were created and to dust we return" But not alone...a Jew, is never alone.
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.
"Israel has nuclear weapons & it isn't afraid to use them if necessary-Does that frighten you? Good"
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
I heard men singing...I saw men dancing. Can you imagine? It's literally FREEZING out there! WOW!
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...
By Paula Stern
Irena Sendler is a reminder that in the darkest of times, a small light of humanity and hope brings forth the greatest hopes.
By Paula Stern
I saw this graphic on Facebook and thought I'd share it.
By Paula Stern
A remarkable video from 1978 showing 28-year-old Netanyahu.
By Paula Stern
I will forever remember that the French crew was offered the chance to leave with the Christians... and chose to stay.
By Paula Stern
Having reviewed the month carefully (no, not really), I feel comfortable awarding the Stupidity Award for June 2013...drum roll please...
By Paula Stern
It goes to Rabbi Yosef Antebi, the beaten Amsterdam rabbi.
By Paula Stern
Our biggest problem today is the future of American Jews -- 41% of world Jewry.
By Paula Stern
Trust us, Sharon - if there was a way we could have made peace in the last 65 years, we would have done it.
By Paula Stern
I was directed to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem where I donated bone marrow and learned a bunch of new words.
By Paula Stern
The attacker was probably blinded by hatred because he missed one key factor.
By Paula Stern
My problem with Tony Blair is that when it comes to Israel…suddenly the naiveté comes through.
By Paula Stern
For now, I want to write about the hotels where I stayed here.
By Paula Stern
How shocking now to think that two of my sons are older than that young man was then...
By Paula Stern
Old, for someone who is in Jerusalem daily, is not a good measuring factor.
By Paula Stern
My first impression of leaving was tremendous pride - reinforced later when I landed in Rome Airport.
It's time to let the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) protect our citizens.
I listened to what was supposed to symbolize a massive missile attack - sirens wailing all over Israel.
While there are many heartwarming tales told about Egged, sadly, the less than amazing is often more the norm.
The area around Rachel's Tomb has been fortified, cement barriers erected to protect those wishing to pray beside her grave.
A response to Ahmadinejad's vitriol from a Jew of Persian descent.
The upcoming President's Conference has a rich list of speakers and unlike some others, I personally don't think Stephen Hawking will be missed.
If anyone is restricted in Jerusalem today - it is we Jews, who are not allowed to move our lips in a whispered prayer, on the Temple Mount. But for today, I will think of the greater celebration.
What do you do when you find yourself in a no-win position?
Scrambled air force jets shooting down a drone, an Arab attacking them with rocks are not the usual concerns with sending your children on a school trip.
'No one ever told me 'Kol HaKavod' for not killing anyone,' my daughter once told me.
I find it fitting and just that Tsarnaev will live his life, knowing that it was Jews that saved his life.
John Kerry, you owe the nation of Israel and the army of Israel an apology.
People go to Eilat to get away from it all, but today the trouble came to them.
Memorial Day in Israel is not a day of picnics and sales or barbecues and fun. It is agony. It is pain.
Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 children out of the ghetto.
July 3, 2026 
