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I would like to talk about what's going in Afghanistan. Because, even though we have more 'local' stories to worry about, like covid and extreme weather, Afghanistan exposes a portrait of the world we are living in. ...

Follow Rwanda.  On this International Women's Day (which of course begs the question -- if women are out front one day a year, what is going on during the other 364?), today I would like to talk about Rwanda. Yes Rw...

  Enter your text here ... A few years ago, I was interviewing a woman for research on sexual abuse in the Jewish community when she told me something that roiled me. My interviewee, a religious journalist working f...

TWO DAYS TO BOOK LAUNCH! "I turned fifty years old this year. I did not mark the event by giving away cars, nor by taking my friends and family to Morocco for the weekend. Instead, on the day itself, I spent the morning ...

Here is a thought that I can barely comprehend: Exactly one year ago, I was running for Knesset. I had formed a new Women's Party with a bunch of energetic women, and we were on the campaign trail. It's hard to picture, ...