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Wed,May 16,2012
24 Iyyar 5772
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A new take on native
Thursday Feb 02, 2012
Myles Horton, a wise educator and organizer once said, "If people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it, you're going to strengthen that position. If you want to change people's ideas, you shouldn't try to convince them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where they'll have to act on ideas, not argue about them."
Perhaps this is why United Hatzalah (Rescue), an...
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Friday Jan 20, 2012
Recently, the Israeli cabinet backed a bill that would forbid the use of the term Nazi, as well as Nazi and Holocaust symbols. It also forbids people from wearing clothes that invoke the Holocaust era, including striped uniforms that look like concentration camp prisoners' uniforms, the yellow Star of David, or any other symbols associated with the Holocaust. (The only exceptions are for educational or historical purposes.) This law was...
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Tuesday Jan 10, 2012
Language says so much about a people. For instance, I learned the word "sh'khol" (שכול) the other day. Sh'khol translates to "bereavement," but its meaning in Hebrew is much more specific. It's an adjective used to describe a family member that loses someone at a young age, or prematurely. Oftentimes it is used to describe parents that lose children in war or terror related incidents.
My Hebrew teacher noted that as far...
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Monday Dec 12, 2011
Several weeks ago, I attended an amazing art exhibit by a Holocaust survivor. I was so moved that I wrote this review in the Jerusalem Post Lite below. The artist's name is Israela Hargil, and the exhibit, Cherries and Golden Butterflies, is on display from now until January 1st at the Theater Art Gallery of Holon. It is about her experiences as a child during the Holocaust in Poland. (NOTE: the location has changed since the original...
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Monday Nov 21, 2011
This month, I was ending a job, searching for new work, moving to a new apartment, and got my job re-offered to me in the process. One could say this month spun me “right round, baby right round.” (Okay, I had to put that reference in. It felt so natural.) Now that my economics are solid, I am happy to be writing again.
I wanted to share these employment travails with my readers to shed light on what many of us go through in...
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About This Blog
Laura Rosbrow describes her experiences as a young American journalist and new immigrant. She provides a fresh perspective on Israeli culture and...
Laura Rosbrow describes her experiences as a young American journalist and new immigrant. She provides a fresh perspective on Israeli culture and tells amusing anecdotes from daily life in Israel.
