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Risa Levitt

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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Is It Six after the War?

Is It Six after the War?

There is a specific kind of 3 a.m. that belongs only to Israel. Wednesday’s 3 a.m. was one of them. It began with two missiles over Jerusalem. Then,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Risa levitt

The Hebrew they never taught me in Jewish Day School

My Hebrew is functional. It is not pretty. It gets the job done the way a duct-taped suitcase gets the job done — it holds… For years, the words I...

07.04.2026 10

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Risa levitt

The Plowshare in the Bomb Shelter

So I wrote a few days ago about watching Sennacherib’s Prism — a 2,700-year-old record of the siege of Jerusalem — get carried into a bomb...

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Risa levitt

In the Shelter with Sennacherib

I’ve been in Israel long enough to know the drill but not long enough to be numb to it. When you come to this country as an adult, the sirens never...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Risa levitt