A Truck in the Scrap Yard We’ve just closed in on two months in Berlin! Two months of getting sorted while knowing very well things back...

Conversation Record - Historical Parallels and Contemporary Concerns Date: August 3, 2025 Initial Request Human: I would like you to...

*Spoiler alert...(in case you haven't seen this 46-year-old movie yet...) " So, cowboy. . . . . .l am  sending  you to San Francisco....

It all started in November 2022. After four—maybe five—election days in just two years, this one dealt the most devastating blow. A...

News pounding on our notification centers makes the severity of the situation hard to realize at the present time. Information flow and...

Standing at Potsdam Platz, back in 2008, looking at the marks of where the deviding wall once parted between the poeple, made me...

That's it! I realised my slowdown. I know the war has shifted a lot of everything we did before, and new priorities have risen. But the...

I'm referring to the term "Big Lie," coined by Hitler and first mentioned (apparently) in his favourite pastime fantasy book Mein Kampf,...

January 2024. The 4 photography workshop days have ended, yielding everything I was hoping to achieve and more! Working with a fully...

Everything made this journey magical and surreal. I was leaving my lil' family behind in a pounding country, slamming Gaza with...

2022 I was introduced to Christof Pies, a man who has dedicated his life to uncovering and documenting the past existence of the Jewish...

A.D. Gordon's quote resonates deeply as I contemplate returning to my blog after enduring five months of turmoil, chaos, and horror in...

Me in the Village I knew Lily was a Holocaust survivor, just as many facts and rumors circulate in small villages. I really wanted her...

I was lucky to re-encounter a first-hand Holocaust survivor during my adult dive into Holocaust studies. She had a tattooed number on her...

I can't count the times I've sung the Israeli Anthem. Gazillion, maybe? I never found it fun or uplifting... I don't think it has to be...

Casual Sidewalk Berlin 2008 Back in 2008, during my first visit to Berlin, a lot of turmoil was raging within my unsettled mind due to...

The Wall 2008 I read 'The Nazi and the Barber' for the first time back in 1994, at the age of 21 just finishing my army service, I got my...

I came across Yehuda Elkana's writings in the early stages of gathering material to assist in provoking my thoughts. In his article "The...

Zygmunt Bauman, in his book "Modernity and the Holocaust," presents an interesting idea on how feelings of hate begin. On page 37, ( I...

Well, standing in front of the devastated reconstructions in Berlin has opened my ability to seek answers and realize the inevitable...

In 2015, we moved to a bigger rented place. With our second child coming into our lives, we needed more space. A project that had been...

Associations on the edge of a flower bed in the fields. Babysitting "Doda Ella" (Aunty Ella) was one of the chores I dreaded the most. I...

While I was traveling in Germany in 2013, capturing the images I carefully planned for the journey - sketches I had prepared at home, I...

I got a few opportunities to work with young students who have just come back from the visit to Poland. The kids seemed as if they have...