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Risa Levitt

Risa Levitt

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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The Bible scholar I never met

I came to Eitan Rosenzweig the way you sometimes come to people who have already left — through their work, through other people’s grief, through...

20.04.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Risa levitt

Sirens

There are sirens and there are sirens. The Yom HaShoah siren sounds at ten in the morning. Two minutes. The country stops — cars pull over, people...

14.04.2026 30

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Risa levitt

The calf and the missile

Everyone here is talking about שגרה right now. Routine. When are we going back to it, what will it look like, is this — this strange suspended...

12.04.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Risa levitt

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,...

10.04.2026 40

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 20

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...

02.04.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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...

29.03.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Risa levitt