|
Rebecca Liebermann NisselThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
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...