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Rebecca Liebermann NisselThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Today I woke up to the sad news of the passing of Lindsey Graham. I did not want to believe it, so I checked a few of my news apps, and soon grasped...
The silver Challah tray, framed against a backdrop of black velvet and mounted on the wall above the washing station, was what made me realize that...
It was the display of the pomegranates that left me breathless. Row upon row of them was stacked with meticulous care, but the reason I stopped and...
I just returned from a visit to the Kotel. Once I walk through the security, I always stop before I descend the stairs. Why? You might ask, aren’t...
They arrived one after the other. We spent Shabbat in Ra’anana at the home of our children. Our grandson Eli had come home from his base in the...
I am exhausted and my heart is heavy. Even though I mentally prepared myself for the sirens, and heard from family and friends how difficult it is to...
Our grandson was off from his base and for us it was a jubilation to embrace him after such a long time. On our last trip to Israel, they did not let...
At a rather fast pace, we walked through the Arab shuk on our way to the Kotel to daven Mincha. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a group of Jews...
I noticed the elderly gray haired man wearing a traditional German Alpine jacket, with green lapels and silver buttons. He held a folded map in his...
This is what I said this morning, as I do every Wednesday during Shachrit, but today an emotion rose within me which I cannot explain. The fact that...
A crate of Jaffa oranges. That is what I received after winning a raffle at Steffl, one of the newest department stores in Vienna. The year was 1967....
I ran to the Opera House, hoping that somehow, in some way, I might find a coveted ticket for Monday night’s performance of Tosca. Anna Netrebko. Of...
A wisp of a young woman stood at the gates of a fighter unit, barely fifty kilos of quiet determination against a world that measured strength in...
I know a friend in Los Angeles whose parents are buried in a mass grave in Vienna. The first time I visited this memorial was a few years ago, on...
Marciano wine was offered to us in small sips, poured into tall glasses. The selection was exactly what one would expect at a high end meeting with a...
Last night, we were surprised to receive a phone call from our grandson Eli. I write “surprised” because since the “lion started to roar,” Eli...
I don’t think I need to translate this well known proverb which we Jews hear hundreds of times throughout our lives. But these days it feels...
I said Tehilim the entire day on October 7, and yesterday on Purim I sang and danced. Why? I asked myself. Families in Israel must constantly escape...
As a child growing up in the Galut, I was not truly aware of that truth. I lived in Vienna, surrounded by a warm and embracing family, and that was my...
As I listen to the last few Prakim of the Nach Yomi cycle, a sense of fulfillment encompasses my soul. I am on the East Coast and the freezing cold...
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