Tabby Refael (on Twitter @RefaelTabby) is a Los Angeles based writer, speaker and activist.
On a superficial level, the lights, songs and whimsical decorations offer me a respite from the heartless darkness of Hamas-inflicted suffering upon my people.
Judaism is obsessed with two eternal tenets: Choosing life, and being enveloped in reality-based gratitude.
Sometimes, it helps to call something by its name. It also helps that pro-Palestinian demonstrators themselves are chanting slogans such as “Globalize the intifada.”
If Time was a Jewish magazine, I would nominate you for its annual “Person of the Year.”
A talk with Israel Bachar, the newly-arrived Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles.
Here are 10 questions we should all be asking ourselves and others about Israel, Hamas and this previously unimaginable war.
I want to share several observations with readers about what I will now remember as one of the hardest days of my life.
It was me versus a machine. And flesh-and-bone, inefficient human that I am, I believe I lost.
This time of year is rife for heartfelt prayers, and in contemplating this week’s column, I wondered what I could add to the undoubtedly powerful words that so many Jewish writers will share about this special time.
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